3 Quotes by Steven Landsburg

We both approach the world as economists, and as economists resigned to - and sometimes even reveling in - the character defect that diverts us from pure science to policy analysis. An economist who has abandoned his resistance to policy analysis is liable to fall prey to even more seductive and dangerous vice of policy formulation.

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: ‘People respond to incentives.’ The rest is commentary.

Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they’re incoherent.