Computer Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Edward C. Prescott

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

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

— Benjamin Graham

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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 behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

— David Hemenway

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

— Tim Harford

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

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

— Edward Abbey

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

— Andy Rooney