Nassim Taleb is not a fan of economists.

If you have read his books or if you follow him on Twitter or Facebook, you'd know.

He even engages individual economists, like Karl Whelan earlier this year, in debates worthy of reality TV.

We pulled a sample of Taleb's best anti-economist quotes from his Facebook and Twitter pages, his paper "The Skin In The Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events", and an interview with the Financial Times. Mixed in there is a fair amount of disdain for journalists too.: