Economics Quote by Mary Roach

“None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries”

— Steven E. Landsburg

“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

“smarter people tend to think more like economists”

— Steven Pinker

“Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?”

— Dan Ariely

“There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.”

— Peter Boettke

“Economics is not a science and should not be there to advise policy.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

— Anonymous

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

— Robert Krulwich

Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve…

— Charley Reese

“If poor people were not diagnosed as incompetent, to whom would the experts sell their expertise?”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear.”

— Max Tegmark