Colleagues Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

— Robert Menzies

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont…

— Thomas Piketty

Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

— David Hemenway

“smarter people tend to think more like economists”

— Steven Pinker

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

When most people think of economists, they think of macro-economists. Macro-economists try to describe or - even harder - predict the movements of a…

— Stephen J. Dubner

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end…

— Thomas Piketty

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

— Benjamin Graham