Economics Quote by Neil Macdonald

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

— Adam Davidson

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

— Benjamin Graham

There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than…

— Adam Davidson

One speaks with great respect of economists, if only because they represent such a variety of opinions.

— Robert Menzies

“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

“The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit…

— Ludwig Von Mises

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be…

— Anonymous

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would…

— Henry Hazlitt

I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception…

— Paul Krugman

If you are an expert in modern economics, then you are an expert in smoke and mirrors, because that's what modern economics is: a…

— The Free World Charter

I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener…

— Ha-Joon Chang