“ ...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt, and Money. How anybody can think they can analyze capital while leaving ou… Steve Keen
“ The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history. Steven Magee
“ The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“ In my experience, economists rarely believe passionately in, or care passionately for, the free market. They are generally more concerned to reveal the market's imperfections, to further their own pro… Terence Kealey
“ But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Edmund Burke
“ Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. Joseph Stiglitz
“ He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning. Richard Davenport-Hines
“ An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter
“ ...some student asked if he [Larry Summers] didn’t have essentially the same relationship with Bob Rubin. Wasn’t Summer’s opposition to capital controls just a sop to Wall Street banks, which wanted t… Richard Bradley