Economics Quote by Neil Postman

“[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries”

— Steven E. Landsburg

“Truth is commodity in political consumption.”

— Toba Beta

“The economic metaphor came to be applied to every aspect of modern life, especially the areas where it simply didn't belong. In fields such…

— John Lanchester

“95 per cent of economics is common sense – made to look difficult, with the use of jargons and mathematics.”

— Ha-Joon Chang

“Thinking ‘economistically’, as we have done now for thirty years, is not intrinsic to humans.”

— Tony Judt

“Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?”

— Dan Ariely

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Ultimately, what economics attempts to measure, underneath money, is the totality of all that human beings make and do for each other.”

— Charles Eisenstein

“If history has lied then economics is the conclusion of its deceit.”

— Loron-Jon Stokes

“Perhaps Chalaby put it best when he argued that “journalism is not only an invention of the market economy, but…the narrative form that capitalism…

— Mark Bray

“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.”

— Tim Jackson

“Economics is organized common sense.”

— Thomas Sargent