Arguing Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will…

— Will Rogers

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

— William Nordhaus

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good…

— Will Rogers

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont…

— Thomas Piketty

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

— Harry S. Truman

The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a skill which…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

— Paul Krugman

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

— Mark Twain

We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of…

— Paul Ormerod