Common man Quote by Nirmala Sitharaman

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

— Barry Ritholtz

“Economics is organized common sense.”

— Thomas Sargent

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

— John McCain

“None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“95% of economics is common sense”

— Ha-Joon Chang

It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics…

— Lionel Shriver

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

— John Oliver

If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It also has…

— W. Brian Arthur

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human…

— Dale T. Mortensen

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ha-Joon Chang

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