Castes Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their…

— James Meade

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 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

The tradition of Chicago price theory is a good one, and it is a low-tech methodology that tries to apply simple economic theory to…

— Richard Thaler

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

— John Lanchester

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

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

— Michel Chossudovsky

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

— Tim Harford

That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and…

— David Plotz

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

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have…

— Sir John Richard Hicks