Bits Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of…

— Michael Kinsley

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

— Edward C. Prescott

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

— Benjamin Graham

“The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“smarter people tend to think more like economists”

— Steven Pinker

“science of economics should focus on the best use of scarce means to satisfy social ends.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more…

— George Stigler

In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Social scientific research is and always will be tentative and imperfect. It does not claim to transform economics, sociology, and history into exact sciences.…

— Thomas Piketty

“Thinking ‘economistically’, as we have done now for thirty years, is not intrinsic to humans.”

— Tony Judt