Cause and effect Quote by William Stanley Jevons

If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces…

— Christopher Hitchens

An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation... It's not actually understood by most of…

— Chris Gabrieli

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 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

We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of…

— Paul Ormerod

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

— William Stanley Jevons

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being…

— Paul Samuelson

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls…

— Ben Bernanke

We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.

— Robert J. Shiller

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

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

— Robert Kuttner