Economics Quote by Peter Boettke

“None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

— William Nordhaus

Economics is a very dangerous science.

— John Maynard Keynes

“Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor we would know much of the…

— T. W. E Roche

“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

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

“As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries”

— Steven E. Landsburg

“I am not an economist, but things are not as bad as they seem. I have a great deal of confidence in our future.”

— Walt Elias Disney

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

— Anonymous