Economics Quote by Henry Calvert Simons

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“As the authors of the studies point out, these effects suggest that economics education may have serious consequences for students’ attitudes towards greed.”

— Vaddhaka Linn

Good economics is good politics.

— Paul Keating

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would…

— Henry Hazlitt

Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a…

— Ashraf Ghani

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

As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school,…

— Zephyr Teachout

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

Politics is a continuation of economics by other means

— Michael Ruppert

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

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form…

— Hazel Henderson

About the only useful thing my economics degree taught me was that, in all decisions in life, you have to do a cost-benefit analysis.

— Konnie Huq