Democracy Quote by John Maynard Keynes

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

“[T]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— Anonymous

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive…

— Robert Heilbroner

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

— Ronald Reagan

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 get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

— Edward C. Prescott

Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the…

— Tyler Cowen

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan