Discipline Quote by Thomas Piketty

...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at…

— Thomas Piketty

“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

Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding…

— Mark Blaug

There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have…

— Sir John Richard Hicks

The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

— Paul Ormerod

Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Unlike sociology, a pariah science that is always under suspicion for its supposed political leanings, and from which the powerful expect nothing but a…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable…

— James R Newman

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

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

“Economics ought to be a magpie discipline, taking in philosophy, history and politics. But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from most faculties,…

— Aditya Chakrabortty

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

— William Stanley Jevons