Irrationality In Economics Quotes & Sayings

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs. — Bryan Caplan

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different. — David Hockney

The longer I don't write, the more I hurt. — Naomi Wood

Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave? — Dan Ariely

The reader who thinks that rationality does not require a definition should ponder the following: I'll give you a million dollars to do something irrational. — Lakshman Krishnamurthi

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Live life with no filters. — Carlos Wallace

But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order, bourgeois ideology as a whole and with it bourgeois economics began abandoning both reason and history. — Paul A. Baran

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there. — Saint Basil

Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology. — Evan Davis