Administrative Quote by Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with…

— Paul Ormerod

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

— Benjamin Graham

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 operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider world, they…

— Thomas Pogge

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

When we speak of institutions, economists mean more than just organizations. We mean conventions, even rules, about how things are done.

— Paul Romer

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“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

If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just teach one…

— Charles Koch

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing…

— Mark Skousen