Certain Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of…

— Thomas Piketty

“They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know…

— Thomas Piketty

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more…

— George Stigler

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by…

— Kane X. Faucher

If the research agenda reflects "market forces", the problems of the poor are likely to be even more neglected than they already are.

— Philip Kitcher

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

— Frank Knight

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human…

— Dale T. Mortensen

We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When…

— W. Brian Arthur

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

— John B. S. Haldane

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing…

— Robert J. Shiller

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial…

— Martin Feldstein

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

— Tony Juniper