Attempting Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Models work when they are appropriate for the particular circumstance, but some of the best investment judgments over time have come when people recognized…

— Abby Joseph Cohen

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

It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be…

— Lars Peter Hansen

It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics…

— Lionel Shriver

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general…

— Gerard Debreu

“This book is an essay in what is derogatorily called "literary economics," as opposed to mathematical economics, econometrics, or (embracing them both) the "new…

— Charles P. Kindleberger

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of…

— James Tobin

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

— Muhammad Yunus

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning…

— Muhammad Yunus