Economics Quote by Pierre Bourdieu

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

— August Strindberg

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

— Lionel Charles Robbins

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human…

— Ludwig von Mises

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the…

— George Soros

“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or…

— Alex Berenson

“Unlike sociology, a pariah science that is always under suspicion for its supposed political leanings, and from which the powerful expect nothing but a…

— Pierre Bourdieu

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw…

— John Maynard Keynes

“That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ideas, instruments of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends…

— Ludwig von Mises

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

— John Lanchester

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

— Alfred Marshall