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Category: Economists quotes on economics

October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 Oleg Komlik

Academic Economics: Irrelevant Theories and Misunderstanding of a Real Economic System

October 8, 2018October 8, 2018 Oleg Komlik

Nobel winner Paul Romer on the backwardness of economics and economists’ misleading use of math

July 14, 2018July 23, 2022 Oleg Komlik

Robert Solow’s sarcastic economics

October 5, 2017July 5, 2022 Oleg Komlik

The Art of Central Banking (3) — No working theory of inflation and economists’ instinctual attachment to concepts

May 19, 2017 Oleg Komlik

Economics of Simplism, or why some countries are rich and others poor

May 1, 2017May 1, 2017 Oleg Komlik

Joan Robinson: Solutions offered by economists are no less delusory than those of the theologians

December 14, 2016July 24, 2020 Oleg Komlik

Economics is an Imperial Science

September 14, 2016August 14, 2019 Oleg Komlik

The Art of Central Banking

May 6, 2016July 24, 2020 Oleg Komlik

No Reality, Please. We’re Economists.

February 4, 2016February 8, 2018 Oleg Komlik

Horses and Economics – from the horse’s mouth

July 18, 2015October 11, 2019 Oleg Komlik

Camels, mathematics and the history of economics

April 29, 2015August 5, 2021 Oleg Komlik

Robert Heilbroner: “The prestige accorded to mathematics in economics has given it rigor, but, alas, also mortis”

April 18, 2015July 2, 2019 Oleg Komlik

Paul Volcker: “The ‪‎economics‬ profession is in trouble… We need to pull economics back into the real world of Political Economy.”

March 26, 2015June 4, 2017 Oleg Komlik

Gregory Mankiw: “Economic science is still a primitive body of ‪knowledge‬.”

March 21, 2015November 13, 2020 Oleg Komlik

Ben Bernanke on economics and economic forecasting

February 5, 2015May 1, 2017 Oleg Komlik

Joan Robinson: Economics has always been partly a vehicle for the ruling ideology

January 13, 2015June 12, 2021 Oleg Komlik

Simplistic Economics, or when real people ruin perfect economic models

January 5, 2015January 5, 2015 Oleg Komlik

Economists are self-confident and regularly wrong, admits Columbia economics professor

June 11, 2014June 20, 2019 Oleg Komlik

Joseph Stiglitz: ‘Free markets’ as a religious belief

April 19, 2014February 11, 2022 Oleg Komlik

Economics professor: Economic models are wrong and invalid, but simple and useful

March 28, 2014April 2, 2014 Oleg Komlik

“The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.” (Professor David Korten)

March 6, 2014March 19, 2017 Oleg Komlik

Ludwig Lachmann: “Mechanistic theories are bound to produce results which look automatic”

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