Nobel prize Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“In 1986, Buchanan was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics. Liberal economists were aghast. Robert Lekachman, for instance, lambasted Buchanan for reducing “all human…

— Jane Mayer

Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing 'science' rather…

— Robert J. Samuelson

It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this…

— Michael Spence

With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors…

— Simon Kuznets

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Ulrich Van Holtz continued to read the latest tome on world economics, pretending to be bored, but in truth absolutely fascinated!”

— Shelly Laurenston

So many of the great thought leaders that have shaped economics - Gary Becker, Milton Friedman - what an unbelievable success story they've had…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.

— Herbert A. Simon

“You know, if they ever gave a Nobel Prize for avoiding work, every year some white guy in Iowa would get a million bucks…

— Andrew Smith

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

— Robert Krulwich