Curves Quote by Michael Kinsley

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

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

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

— William Nordhaus

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end…

— Thomas Piketty

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

“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

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups…

— Ludwig von Mises

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human…

— Ludwig von Mises

Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the…

— Thomas Piketty

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more…

— George Stigler