Approach Quote by Tyler Cowen

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem…

— John Lanchester

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form…

— Hazel Henderson

“Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies. Its fundamental concern is with the material standard of…

— Thomas Sowell

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

— Isaac Asimov

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

— Thomas Pogge

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human…

— Dale T. Mortensen

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

Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects…

— Amity Shlaes

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human…

— Amartya Sen

“Economics is the tool we hide behind today in order to justify an abhorrent track record of abuses of human rights and degradation of…

— Steve Carlsson

Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics and politics:…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty…

— E. F. Schumacher