Abandon Quote by Robert Heilbroner

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

— George Bernard Shaw

We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of…

— Paul Ormerod

No one should have to get a PhD in economics to survive in this economy.

— Elizabeth Warren

Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal."

— Lewis Mumford

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

— Paul Krugman

Economics is too important to leave to the economists.

— Steve Keen

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

— Andrew Simms

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

— Isaac Asimov

Economics runs the world.

— Machine Gun Kelly

There are many ways to create economic suicide on a national level. The major way through history has been through indebting the economy. Debt…

— Michael Hudson

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

— David Suzuki

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

— Paul Ormerod