Confined Quote by Jean-Baptiste Say

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

— Paul Samuelson

Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily…

— John Stuart Mill

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing…

— Robert J. Shiller

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

— Robert Kuttner

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge…

— Thomas Malthus

Politics is not a science...but an art.

— Otto von Bismarck

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

— Deepak Chopra

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

— Leon Russell

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by…

— Kane X. Faucher

Politics is no exact science.

— Otto von Bismarck

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

— Jacob Bronowski

It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to…

— Arthur Cecil Pigou