My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.
My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.
By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain a broad base of knowledge in economics and political science, together with reasonable skills in advanced mathematics, symbolic logic, and mathematical statistics.
I was a mathematics major and really into math.
On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.
In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching.
My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.