Category: Economists quotes on economics
Academic Economics: Irrelevant Theories and Misunderstanding of a Real Economic System
Nobel winner Paul Romer on the backwardness of economics and economists’ misleading use of math
Robert Solow’s sarcastic economics
The Art of Central Banking (3) — No working theory of inflation and economists’ instinctual attachment to concepts
Economics of Simplism, or why some countries are rich and others poor
Joan Robinson: Solutions offered by economists are no less delusory than those of the theologians
Economics is an Imperial Science
The Art of Central Banking
No Reality, Please. We’re Economists.
Horses and Economics – from the horse’s mouth
Camels, mathematics and the history of economics
Robert Heilbroner: “The prestige accorded to mathematics in economics has given it rigor, but, alas, also mortis”
Paul Volcker: “The economics profession is in trouble… We need to pull economics back into the real world of Political Economy.”
Gregory Mankiw: “Economic science is still a primitive body of knowledge.”
Ben Bernanke on economics and economic forecasting
Joan Robinson: Economics has always been partly a vehicle for the ruling ideology
Simplistic Economics, or when real people ruin perfect economic models
Economists are self-confident and regularly wrong, admits Columbia economics professor
