Economics Quote by William Stanley Jevons

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science…

— William Stanley Jevons

My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have not bestowed…

— William Stanley Jevons

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.

— William Stanley Jevons

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

— George Stigler

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

— James Buchan

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance…

— John Warren Kindt

There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world…

— Thomas Piketty

In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from plus to…

— Robert Gilpin

When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are…

— Michael Hudson

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

— Emily Oster

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use…

— Barry Ritholtz

Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.

— Ivan Illich