Challenges Quote by Mark Zandi

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

— Anonymous

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

We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that…

— Hugh Hendry

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know…

— Thomas Piketty

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

— Adam Davidson

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

— Andy Rooney

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much.

— Paul Krugman

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

— George Bernard Shaw

People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its…

— John Kenneth Galbraith