Economics Quote by Mark Skousen

If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just teach one…

— Charles Koch

Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic,…

— Bernard Baruch

With respect to teaching, I couldn't make sense of mainstream economics when I had to teach it to college students. At the same time,…

— Michael Yates

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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

— Benjamin Graham

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and…

— Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

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

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large, do not…

— Ronald Coase

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