Economist Quote by Ronald Reagan

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

When most people think of economists, they think of macro-economists. Macro-economists try to describe or - even harder - predict the movements of a…

— Stephen J. Dubner

Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large, do not…

— Ronald Coase

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

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding