Economics Quote by Robert Heilbroner

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

— Anonymous

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

— Robert Heilbroner

...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at…

— Thomas Piketty

“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

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

— Milton Friedman

Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding…

— Mark Blaug

In the 1940s, economics started getting highly mathematical. It was basically because economists weren't smart enough to write down models of real behavior that…

— Richard Thaler

Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable…

— James R Newman

The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

— Paul Ormerod

“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of…

— Thomas Piketty

Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar…

— Viswanathan Anand

Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author…

— John Maynard Keynes