Economics Quote by Terry Pratchett

Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course)... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior…

— Robert L. Devaney

Fundamentals make the market.

— T. Boone Pickens

“Recognizing that the boundaries of the market are ambiguous and cannot be determined in an objective way lets us realize that economics is not…

— Ha-Joon Chang

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more…

— George Stigler

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

— Gerard Debreu

“The fallacy that dynamic processes must be modeled as if the system is in continuous equilibrium is probably the most important reason for the…

— Steve Keen

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

— Herman E. Daly

It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to…

— Arthur Cecil Pigou

Critics of 'economic sciences' sometimes refer to the development of a 'pseudoscience' of economics, arguing that it uses the trappings of science, like dense…

— Robert J. Shiller

“Some people argue that economics is an exception to this general story. Economics, they say, provides a much more analytically precise and tightly integrated…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

“Reductionism in the physical sciences has been challenged by the principle of emergence. The whole system acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot be predicted…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone…

— Milton Friedman