Accidents Quote by Henry Hazlitt

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

— Henry Hazlitt

“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 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

Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is…

— Jerry Pournelle

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

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 problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

— Joseph Stiglitz

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics…

— Hazel Henderson

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

“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 seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the…

— George Soros

“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