Economics Quote by Greg Mankiw

What's the single most important thing to learn from an economics course today? What I tried to leave my students with is the view…

— Lawrence Summers

Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic,…

— Bernard Baruch

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works.

— Kane

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

— Mike Holmgren

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with…

— James Tobin

In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down…

— Paul Samuelson

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

— Molly Quinn

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

— Tim Harford

I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including mathematical theory…

— Michael Spence

Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups…

— Ludwig von Mises

That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and…

— David Plotz