Amateur Quote by Tom Chatfield

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

— Benjamin Graham

I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer.

— Mark McKinnon

Question: Why does anyone bother to listen to economists anymore? The profession has become an embarrassment, and the most respected economists have shown themselves…

— Stephen Moore

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

— Edward C. Prescott

Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont…

— Thomas Piketty

Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks…

— Pauline Hanson

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries”

— Steven E. Landsburg

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic…

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing…

— Mark Skousen