Belong Quote by John Lanchester

Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage.…

— Tyler Cowen

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

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, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human…

— Amartya Sen

“As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.”

— Steven D. Levitt

“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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 study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which…

— Thomas Sowell

Economics is not a morality play.

— Paul Krugman

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