Debate Quote by Nathan Myhrvold

“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

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

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or…

— Alex Berenson

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more…

— George Stigler

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

— David Korten

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of…

— Michael Kinsley

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

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the…

— George Soros