Application Quote by Max Weber

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.

— Andrew Mwenda

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.

— Paul Tudor Jones

Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human…

— Dale T. Mortensen

The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician…

— Udny Yule

Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding…

— Mark Blaug

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory…

— John Maynard Keynes

Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes…

— Pope John Paul II

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries…

— Paul Dirac