In my early days, I wrote my dissertation for MIT at the London School of Economics, really under James Meade, but my dissertation was five chapters on the theory of capital movement, but it didn't mention money.
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I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.
I started working and publishing in price theory by 1938.
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.
I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.
I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.