Clear Quote by William Stanley Jevons

It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because it deals…

— William Stanley Jevons

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the…

— George Soros

It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice…

— William Stanley Jevons

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

— Paul Samuelson

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science.

— Paul Samuelson

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

— Jim Stanford

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find…

— Jean Chretien

Economics is not an exact science.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

— Paul Samuelson

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

Critics of 'economic sciences' sometimes refer to the development of a 'pseudoscience' of economics, arguing that it uses the trappings of science, like dense…

— Robert J. Shiller

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a…

— Herbert A. Simon