Branches Quote by Thomas Malthus

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge…

— Thomas Malthus

Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily…

— John Stuart Mill

Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

— Adam Davidson

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

— Leon Russell

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.

— Nassau William Senior

“Political and economic considerations exert pressure on science to answer strictly practical, immediate problems––in some cases by directed funding, in other coercive ways by…

— Kane X. Faucher

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic…

— Michael Innes

“To rank economic activities as more or less preferable is ideology, not science: a judgment that is driven by values and predilections, not by…

— Sam Vaknin

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything…

— Thomas Sowell

“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