Economics Quote by Robert Menzies

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont…

— Thomas Piketty

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

Question: Why does anyone bother to listen to economists anymore? The profession has become an embarrassment, and the most respected economists have shown themselves…

— Stephen Moore

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

— Adam Davidson

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

— William Nordhaus

Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong.

— Abhijit Banerjee

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get…

— Winston Churchill