Economic Quote by James Meade

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the…

— James Meade

Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field that I…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I started in the law; and the study of law, when it precedes the study of economics, gives you a set of foundation principles…

— Robert Reich

Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

— John Lanchester

Economics is a good degree to have but the subject is very theoretical at Cambridge and I found it frustrating that you can't apply…

— Konnie Huq

In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy.…

— James Meade

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general…

— Gerard Debreu

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

— Tim Harford

I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One…

— Charlie Trotter