Economics Quote by Thomas Piketty

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

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

I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.”

— Mark Haddon

“Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of…

— Thomas Piketty

“The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit…

— Ludwig Von Mises

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

— David Landes

Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more…

— Ha-Joon Chang

“Never underestimate the power of a “reasonable-sounding argument”, especially to people who are not scientists.”

— Angelic-Demon

“Economics is not a science and should not be there to advise policy.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“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

“Most modern intellectuals and scientists have hardly any interest in place, for they consider their theories to be applicable everywhere.”

— Alastair Bonnett