Conviction Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form…

— Hazel Henderson

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding…

— Mark Blaug

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human…

— Dale T. Mortensen

Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups…

— Ludwig von Mises

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about…

— Thomas Piketty

“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often…

— Thomas Piketty

The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is…

— Will Hutton

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

— David Autor

I started in the law; and the study of law, when it precedes the study of economics, gives you a set of foundation principles…

— Robert Reich

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

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

— David Korten