# Quote — Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide

> [J]argons that facilitate communication within the profession makes its communication with outsiders more difficult. ...[A]ll technical professions have an incentive to make themselves look more complicated... so they can justify the high fees... for their services.

- Author: [Ha-Joon Chang](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ha-joon-chang.md)
- Book: [Economics: The User's Guide](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ha-joon-chang/economics-the-users-guide.md)
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## More from this book

> Money is a symbol of what others in your society owe you, or your claim on particular amounts of the society's resources.
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> How money and other financial claims... are created, sold and bought is... . ...[C]laims ...a lot of economics is (or should be) about those.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ha-joon-chang/economics-the-users-guide/money-is-a-symbol.md)

Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md)

> I try to explain... how to think, rather than what to think.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ha-joon-chang/economics-the-users-guide/i-try-to-explain.md)

Topics: [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md), [education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/education.md)

> [E]conomics can never be a science in the sense that physics or chemistry is. There are many different types of economic theory, each emphasizing different aspects of a complex reality, making different moral and political value judgments and drawing different conclusions. ...[E]conomic theories constantly fail to predict real-world developments... not least because human beings have... free will, unlike chemical molecules or [other] physical objects.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ha-joon-chang/economics-the-users-guide/e-conomics-can-never.md)

Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md), [free will](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/free-will.md)