Early Quote by Michael Spence

My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another,…

— Anonymous

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

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the…

— Vernon L. Smith

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

— Steve Case

When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social…

— Simon Kuznets

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability -…

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

— Simon Newcomb

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

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Gerard Debreu

I studied economics and thought I wanted to play with the stock market - my dad was a financial adviser - and I was…

— Jimmy O. Yang

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

— James Heckman