About Quote by Thomas Piketty

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end…

— Thomas Piketty

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

— Edward Gibbon

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about…

— Thomas Piketty

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

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of…

— Michael Kinsley

“Social scientific research is and always will be tentative and imperfect. It does not claim to transform economics, sociology, and history into exact sciences.…

— 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

To me, economics doesn't need to be political.

— Trish Regan

If you're going to make comments on economy, study economy. If you're gonna make comments on world history, make sure you learn world history.…

— Yoel Romero

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

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