Accounts Quote by Ronald Coase

The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested…

— Israel Kirzner

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

— Robert Solow

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

— Joseph Addison

There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

“Ignorance leads to economic failures.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

— George Bancroft

“Prejudice is the pinnacle of self injected ignorance. It enables poor choices to be pre-chosen.”

— Tom Althouse

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some…

— Edward Boyden

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

— George Bancroft

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

— Abraham Verghese

“exacerbated eagerness to exploit the ignorance and prejudice of voters.”

— Jean Tirole

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be…

— Anonymous