Economics Quote by James Heckman

I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general…

— Gerard Debreu

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

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

— Simon Newcomb

I was trained as an economic theorist; my job at MIT was as an economic theorist. At some level that's still part of my…

— Abhijit Banerjee

“I began to have deviant thoughts about economic theory while I was a graduate student”

— Richard H. Thaler

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 life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

— A. E. van Vogt

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 started in the law; and the study of law, when it precedes the study of economics, gives you a set of foundation principles…

— Robert Reich

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more…

— George Stigler

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that…

— Douglass North