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Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.

I'm a Ph.D. in economics, and so you analyze every situation uniquely because every international situation is unique.

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.

I think that it's more important for an economist to be wise and sophisticated in scientific method than it is for a physicist because with controlled laboratory experiments possible, they practically guide you; you couldn't go astray. Whereas in economics, by dogma and misunderstanding, you can go very sadly astray.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

'The Economist' is a biased organization.

Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.