Attention Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

— Tony Juniper

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

“It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often…

— Kaushik Basu

“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of…

— Peter Joseph

“Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed have followed…

— Nwabudike Morgan

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the…

— Jaron Lanier

It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like…

— Dan Ariely

There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create…

— Michael Pollan

“Economics is the tool we hide behind today in order to justify an abhorrent track record of abuses of human rights and degradation of…

— Steve Carlsson

We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack…

— Charles Eisenstein

If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each acting as…

— Noam Chomsky

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