Action Quote by Ludwig von Mises

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

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the…

— George Soros

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

— Nikita Khrushchev

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

— Jim Stanford

“Economics is not a true description of one kind of action but an abstract, arbitrary, and therefore erroneous description of all action; and the…

— R. G. Collingwood

Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.

— Adam Davidson

Today if you look at most economic textbooks, economics is not defined by subject matter. It's presented as a science of social choice that…

— Michael Sandel

Economics is not an exact science.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is…

— Thomas Sowell

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no…

— Julian Baggini

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding