Audience Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

“[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries”

— Steven E. Landsburg

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

— Evan Davis

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 subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

— Nikita Khrushchev

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be…

— Anonymous

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form…

— Hazel Henderson

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

— Charles Wheelan

“The economics we need is of the "seminar room" variety, not the "rule-of-thumb" kind. It is an economics that recognizes its limitations and caveats…

— Dani Rodrik

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

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human…

— 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