Branches Quote by Thomas Malthus

Both economics and politics are false sciences.

— Leon Russell

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

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

— Alfred Marshall

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than…

— Thomas Malthus

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of…

— Frank Chodorov

Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are…

— Michel Foucault

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing…

— Robert J. Shiller

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

— Eugene Hutz

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least…

— Otto von Bismarck

Economics is really politics in disguise.

— Hazel Henderson

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

— Anonymous

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be…

— W. H. Auden