Become Quote by Gerard Debreu

In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down…

— Paul Samuelson

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with…

— James Tobin

My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works.

— Kane

I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.

— Ben Bernanke

The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.

— James Heckman

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the…

— James Meade

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as…

— Kenneth Arrow

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

— Mike Holmgren

I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including mathematical theory…

— Michael Spence

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

— Herb Ritts

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning…

— Muhammad Yunus

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

— Gerard Debreu