“...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.” IdeasNumbersQualityEconomicsFunctionBrilliantTitlesQuantityPrintedBrilliant Ideas Author:Carlo M. Cipolla
“As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the interrogation points become more frequent, and that it culminates where they are changed to marks of positive dissent. I venture to record the opinion that the value of the work reaches a maximum in a passage that is demonstrably incorrect.” ValuesInterestOpinionRecordsProgressChangedReaderEconomicsIncreaseMarkCarefulPassagesVentureMaximumHere And ThereDissentInsertInterrogation Author:John Bates Clark
“It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.” WellsFactsBeautifulStruggleEconomicsSimplicityEaseResolutionHypothesis Author:John Maurice Clark
“We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.” WorldFirstsPoliticalStrongTakenInfluenceEconomicPolicyIgnoranceEconomicsOrganizationAccountsPrejudiceNotesConfusionFactorsPolicy Making Author:Ronald Coase
“The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.” EconomicsAnalysisCompetent Author:Avinash Dixit
“Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.” InterestEconomicReaderEconomicsTasksImpressionOpponentsControversyThankless Author:Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
“Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.” KnowsDifficultTheoryEconomics Author:Charles Ferguson
“There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.” ShouldWiseEconomicsEconomistScopeGeneralizationOld Saying Book:The Essential Galbraith Source: The Essential Galbraith
“I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.” KnowsEconomicsKnowledgeable Author:James Goldman
“...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious forms of statistical and field work.” MayFormTeachingFieldsDutyEconomicsSufficientArrangementsEconomistAdministrative Author:Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod