About Quote by Thomas Piketty

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people…

— W. Brian Arthur

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

— David Hemenway

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

— Edward C. Prescott

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

— Benjamin Graham

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much.

— Paul Krugman

People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.

— Herbert Stein