Quote by Steven Pinker Download Open image ““smarter people tend to think more like economists”” — Steven Pinker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better — David Hemenway Copy Share Image
“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Thinking ‘economistically’, as we have done now for thirty years, is not intrinsic to humans.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?” — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“The fatal conceit of intellectuals, he said, is to think that smart people can design an economy or a society better than the apparently… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“I think you have to be a mathematician to appreciate how full of shit economists are, how astrological their equations are.” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The biblical story of the binding of Isaac shows that human sacrifice was far from unthinkable in the 1st millennium BCE. The Israelites boasted… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
