Attention Quote by Paul Samuelson

Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the…

— Daniel Walker Howe

“The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.”

— Peter Boettke

An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which is a…

— Mark Noll

“Marc Andreesen puts it, “Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are.”[”

— Alistair Croll

“The truth is that we, in our hyperprosperity, may be able to live without meaning, faith or purpose, filling our threescore years and ten…

— Meic Pearse

“Depicting rational economic man as an isolated individual – unaffected by the choices of others – proved highly convenient for modelling the economy, but…

— Kate Raworth

“The late maverick economist Kenneth Boulding perhaps best summed it up when testifying before the U.S. Congress, declaring that “anyone who believes exponential growth…

— Geoffrey West

“While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell”

— Pierre Bourdieu

“Economics is not a science and should not be there to advise policy.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?”

— Dan Ariely

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

— Robert Krulwich