Age Quote by 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 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 have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material…

— Greg Mankiw

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

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

— Ben Bernanke

Economics comes easily to me, and we all seek out what we do well in life. I had in mind becoming a businessman. And…

— Merlin Olsen

I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I am a trained economist.

— Gita Gopinath

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

— Lars Peter Hansen

That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and…

— David Plotz

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

— Dave Hickey