Economics Quote by Paul Krugman

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

— Mark Zandi

Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And…

— Katty Kay

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

I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else.

— Richard Thaler

Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

— Thomas Sowell

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

— Paul Krugman

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

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

— Emily Oster

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— Ivan Illich

There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world…

— Thomas Piketty