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

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

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.

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

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

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.

I picked economics at the end of my undergraduate time because it seemed to be a really nice combination of theory, including mathematical theory on one hand, and things that are quite practical that you can touch and see and feel. So I picked it, and I consciously thought of it as an experiment to see if I liked it. And it worked.

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.

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.