Confusion Quote by Vivienne Westwood

We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When…

— W. Brian Arthur

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

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

— Steven F. Hayward

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Economics is not an exact science.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is counterintuitive. It just is.

— Edward Conard

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.

— Thomas Sowell

Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.

— Gustave de Molinari

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

— Alfred Marshall

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no…

— Julian Baggini

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

— David Suzuki

The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other…

— Charles C. Mann