Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.”

— Mark Haddon

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science…

— William Stanley Jevons

“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

“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of…

— Thomas Piketty

“The mathematical economists have commonly been mathematicians first and economists afterward, disposed to oversimplify the data and underestimate the divergence between their premises and…

— Frank H. Knight

“The quality of economists cannot be measured … by the nature of the economic life which surrounds them, but only by the originality and…

— Emil kauder

“Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.”

— Galileo

“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.”

— Bruce Schechter

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.

— William Stanley Jevons

“They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know…

— Thomas Piketty

“Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.”

— V.M.Robinson