Being Quote by Ha-Joon Chang

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the…

— Tyler Cowen

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

— Robert Menzies

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

— David Hemenway

In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached.

— Piero Sraffa

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont…

— Thomas Piketty

Yeah, you know, there's a difference between the textbook world that economists like to imagine, and the real world where real people have real…

— Paul Romer

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end…

— Thomas Piketty

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

“smarter people tend to think more like economists”

— Steven Pinker