It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.
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As an undergraduate at UBC in Canada, I fell in love with economic theory. It was the right choice for me.
I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.
I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.
My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.
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 in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence.
I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.
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