Disabled Quote by Will Hutton

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often…

— Thomas Piketty

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human…

— Ludwig von Mises

Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups…

— Ludwig von Mises

...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at…

— Thomas Piketty

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

— John Derbyshire

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

— David Autor

“The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or a particular…

— Pierre Bourdieu

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

— Muhammad Yunus