Cut Quote by Ha-Joon Chang

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things.…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding…

— Mark Blaug

The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

— Paul Ormerod

I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more…

— Jim Cramer

I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and…

— Chris Gethard

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

— Angus Deaton

“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

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

Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have…

— Akshay Kumar

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

— Gloria Steinem

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t…

— Charlie Munger