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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.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

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 think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.

I am often considered almost not a part of the profession of Establishment economists. I am even referred to as a sociologist. And by that, economists usually do not mean anything flattering.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.