Economics Quote by Pierre Bourdieu

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.

— Bertrand Russell

“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

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

“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often…

— Thomas Piketty

“The result is one of the greatest paradoxes of modern history: that an economic system designed to offer infinite choice to the individual has…

— Niall Ferguson

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Peter Boettke

“science of economics should focus on the best use of scarce means to satisfy social ends.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

“An economics of systems only-an economics of markets but not of men-is fatally flawed.”

— George Gilder

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human…

— Dale T. Mortensen

“Ultimately, what economics attempts to measure, underneath money, is the totality of all that human beings make and do for each other.”

— Charles Eisenstein

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more…

— George Stigler