After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.
My ma is an economist. My dad is a software engineer.
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 mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.