About Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong.

— Abhijit Banerjee

Economists often get the market wrong.

— Kapil Sibal

Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people…

— W. Brian Arthur

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

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

People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

— Adam Davidson

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

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

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