Economics Quote by Michael Lewis

“...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt, and Money.…

— Steve Keen

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

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

— Mike Holmgren

“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

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

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

“At the lowest level of the investment banking hierarchy are the analysts. To find this young talent, the I-banks send their manicured young bankers…

— John Rolfe

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

— Joan Robinson

I majored in economics in college. Certain things were just out, like chemistry or biology, or science or math, that was just out of…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

“The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often…

— Thomas Piketty

“The intellectual case for planning was never very strong. Keynes, as we have seen, regarded economic planning much as he did pure market theory:…

— Tony Judt