Economic Quote by Henry Hazlitt

“It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong.

— Abhijit Banerjee

Economists often get the market wrong.

— Kapil Sibal

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

— Henry Hazlitt

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use…

— Barry Ritholtz

Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And…

— Katty Kay

“The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit…

— Ludwig Von Mises

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

— Adam Davidson

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

— Herbert Stein

We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that…

— Hugh Hendry

“paraphrase economist John Maynard Keynes: reputations fare better if we are conventionally wrong than if we are unconventionally right.”

— Michelle Baddeley

Academic economists have consistently discredited themselves by wrongly warning against the policies of President Trump.

— Scott Bessent