“I'm an economist, not a political scientist.” — Dambisa Moyo Quote

“I'm an economist, not a political scientist.”

“Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.”

“I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.”

“I read 'Time', 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist'.”

“'Freakonomics' began with a 'N.Y. Times Magazine' profile I wrote about Steve Levitt. I was working on a book about 'the psychology of money,' and since Levitt's an economist, my editor thought I'd be the guy to write about him. Fact is that Levitt has almost no interest in either psychology or money.”

“Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true. But we do know that a few people have evaluated that story with what strikes me as fairly objective standards of reason.”