Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. Joseph Stiglitz
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith
If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. John Maynard Keynes
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory. William Stanley Jevons
Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today. Martin Feldstein
If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn't go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?" Ronald Coase