Approach Quote by Gary Becker

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

— Brian Wesbury

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed…

— Richard Thaler

The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.

— Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

Today this is what we are confronted with, I mean what is pure ideology, which takes no account of the human context. In economics…

— Catherine Camus

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

— Muhammad Yunus

I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world.

— Russ Roberts

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw…

— John Maynard Keynes

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

— Ray Dalio

The narrative related to economics is, I think, very well understood even by the common man.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

— Lionel Charles Robbins

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human…

— Amartya Sen