College Quote by Michael Yates

If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just teach one…

— Charles Koch

It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing…

— Mark Skousen

Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic,…

— Bernard Baruch

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form…

— Hazel Henderson

“As the authors of the studies point out, these effects suggest that economics education may have serious consequences for students’ attitudes towards greed.”

— Vaddhaka Linn

As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school,…

— Zephyr Teachout

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

The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's…

— Kurt Bills

I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material…

— Greg Mankiw

“Economics ought to be a magpie discipline, taking in philosophy, history and politics. But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from most faculties,…

— Aditya Chakrabortty

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

— Mike Holmgren