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That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

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

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

I entered economics because of a course I took on 'information economics,' which I found fascinating.

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.

I gravitated to economics because I'm interested in how people coordinate and collaborate with each other. Economics studies all the ways people get along with each other.

I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.