About Quote by Vernon L. Smith

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

— Steven E. Landsburg

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

— Joan Robinson

“But to the modern mind, resonating with different media-metaphors, the truth in economics is believed to be best discovered and expressed in numbers. Perhaps…

— Neil Postman

“Why did so many smart people believe these laissez-fairey tales? It’s a good question. Some of the blame surely goes to the excessive faith…

— Alan S. Blinder

“economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear.”

— Max Tegmark

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and…

— Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The narrative related to economics is, I think, very well understood even by the common man.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

“I began to have deviant thoughts about economic theory while I was a graduate student”

— Richard H. Thaler

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

— Barry Ritholtz

I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of boldness in…

— David Plotz