Economics Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

— Robert Krulwich

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the…

— George Soros

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

— Paul Samuelson

“Economics is not a science and should not be there to advise policy.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know…

— Thomas Piketty

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

— Paul Samuelson

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find…

— Jean Chretien

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human…

— Dale T. Mortensen

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

— Paul Samuelson

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

— Steven Landsburg