Attention Quote by Ludwig von Mises

“...capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond those characteristic…

— Jerry Z. Muller

“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality…

— Pierre Bourdieu

It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed, they have…

— Paul Zane Pilzer

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics…

— Hazel Henderson

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects…

— Amity Shlaes

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine…

— Nassau William Senior

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

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.

— E. F. Schumacher

Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is…

— Jerry Pournelle

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

— John Kenneth Galbraith