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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

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and…

— Douglass North

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared…

— Ella Maillart

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I…

— Muhammad Yunus

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

— Richard H. Thaler

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to…

— Jon Krakauer

In the world I lived in,there were ties & debts & consequences & good deeds. & I tried to live in my little niche…

— Jhiess Krieg

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

— Ben Bernanke

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money…

— Peter Capaldi

“Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where…

— Neal Stephenson

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

— Beck

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have…

— Richard Layard, Baron Layard