Economics Quote by Paul Romer

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

For economist the real world is often a special case.

— Edgar Fiedler

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks…

— Pauline Hanson

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont…

— Thomas Piketty

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

— Edward C. Prescott

Economists have much to be humble about.

— Paul Samuelson

People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding…

— Mark Blaug

Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people…

— W. Brian Arthur