Absent Quote by Thomas Malthus

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

— Paul Ormerod

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There are many portions of economical doctrine which appear to me as scientific in form as they are consonant with facts.

— William Stanley Jevons

I would be remiss, as a scientist who studied this, if I didn't mention the following two things: The first is that, most importantly,…

— John Miller

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

— E. F. Schumacher

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration,…

— Susan Oliver

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human…

— Ludwig von Mises

Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality.…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.

— Thomas Sowell

One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating…

— Aristotle

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

— Thomas Pogge

“As with our earlier worship of saints and facts, there is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of…

— John Ralston Saul