Conform Quote by W. Brian Arthur

Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then…

— Duncan Green

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

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

— Ronald Reagan

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely on an…

— Thomas Piketty

“The fallacy that dynamic processes must be modeled as if the system is in continuous equilibrium is probably the most important reason for the…

— Steve Keen

People today dont become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

People today don't become economists to make the world a better place.

— Tim Harford

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

“Neoclassical economics is precisely the theory one would expect a vastly complex system of international corporations, world markets, and interconnected currencies to create to…

— Roger M. Keesing

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

— Martha C. Nussbaum