Against Quote by Scott Bessent

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And…

— Katty Kay

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

— Anat R. Admati

“We both approach the world as economists, and as economists resigned to - and sometimes even reveling in - the character defect that diverts…

— Steven Landsburg

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

— Milton Friedman

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.

— Joan Robinson

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

— Alfred Marshall

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Donald Trump ran for office complaining that at $19 trillion, the US debt was completely out of control, and yet what he's planning to…

— David Cay Johnston

Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by…

— Robert J. Shiller