Economist Quote by Ronald Reagan

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

An economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders if it would work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

— Edward C. Prescott

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

— Muhammad Yunus

For economist the real world is often a special case.

— Edgar Fiedler

Yeah, you know, there's a difference between the textbook world that economists like to imagine, and the real world where real people have real…

— Paul Romer

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.

— Ronald Coase

Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people…

— W. Brian Arthur

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty

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