Economics Quote by Ronald Coase

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

— Voltaire

“A thing too silly to be said can be sung.”

— Pierre-Augustine Caron de Beaumarchais

“But to the modern mind, resonating with different media-metaphors, the truth in economics is believed to be best discovered and expressed in numbers. Perhaps…

— Neil Postman

“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

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

“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

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

— Voltaire

“Being sound as a dollar is important as rolling in dollars.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.”

— Mark Haddon

“Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!”

— Andrew James Pritchard

“We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.”

— V.M.Robinson

“Wealth makes people do silly things.”

— Nat Kozinn