Economist Quote by Katty Kay

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

People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

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

— Tim Harford

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

— Anonymous

Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people…

— W. Brian Arthur

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

— Edward C. Prescott

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to…

— George Bernard Shaw

“We both approach the world as economists, and as economists resigned to - and sometimes even reveling in - the character defect that diverts…

— Steven Landsburg