Anything Quote by Raghuram Rajan

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

— Andy Rooney

They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

— Adam Davidson

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

— Paul Samuelson

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

— Anonymous

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.

— Thomas Sowell

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

— Peter Drucker

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

— Anat R. Admati

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

— William Easterly

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

— Herbert Stein