Economics Quote by Paul Krugman

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

— Thomas J. Sargent

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will…

— Will Rogers

The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences…

— Henry Hazlitt

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good…

— Frederic Bastiat

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

— Paul Krugman

I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

— Marianne Faithfull

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

— Miguel de Unamuno

What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer?…

— Alfie Kohn

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God…

— Jonathan Haidt

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

— Thomas Piketty

It is not sociologists who provide insights but photographers of our sort who are observers at the very center of their times. I have…

— Brassai

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

— John Dewey

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have…

— Anonymous