Criticize Quote by Mario Bunge

Critics of 'economic sciences' sometimes refer to the development of a 'pseudoscience' of economics, arguing that it uses the trappings of science, like dense…

— Robert J. Shiller

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

— Leon Russell

“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

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

— David Korten

Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is…

— Francis Fukuyama

“Unlike sociology, a pariah science that is always under suspicion for its supposed political leanings, and from which the powerful expect nothing but a…

— Pierre Bourdieu

“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

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

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge…

— Thomas Malthus

Have you ever heard of the book 'Freakonomics?' So there's these two economics professors, and they're really interesting guys, and they wrote these books.…

— Oliver Luck

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral…

— Friedrich August von Hayek