Attention Quote by Robert J. Shiller

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by…

— Kane X. Faucher

We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When…

— W. Brian Arthur

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge…

— Thomas Malthus

“Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic…

— Michael Innes

The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found that science…

— John Gibbons

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

— Millicent Fenwick

One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by…

— Michio Kaku

Economics has become as riveting as politics.

— Tina Brown

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics…

— Hazel Henderson

“The hope is that a fundamental flaw in our current political economy may be surmounted, without confronting any serious political–economic questions. Psychology is very…

— William Davies

Economics is really politics in disguise.

— Hazel Henderson

Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining…

— Brian Cox