Economics Education Quotes

I remember, the first time it struck me is I was an econ major at Stanford as an undergrad, and it struck me how few women were econ majors back in the '70s. And then in business school how few women... And even then, I thought, 'Gosh, this is really unfortunate.'

I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

At the beginning of my sophomore year at Princeton University, I took my first economics course; our textbook was the first edition of Samuelson's 'Economics: An Introductory Analysis.'

The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

James Callahan, ... is a likeable and energetic man. And he takes his work seriously. Indeed it is said that he has recently sat for and passed an advanced correspondence course in Economics.

If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just teach one because then the person isn't equipped to deal with the economics profession.

The main thing that you learn in grad school, or should learn, is how to think like an economist. The rest is just math.

I studied economics with some teachers from ESADE. It's a really good school here in Spain. They helped me to understand a little about numbers, stats, economics, etc.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.

Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open to question, but I think it's especially in doubt today.

I have kids in high school that don't know how to balance a checkbook. We need to have that fundamental understanding of economics as we move forward to develop the next generation of young people.

I had the offer of places at Leicester and Loughborough to study financial economics.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.

Funnily enough, the Federal Reserve produced comics about monetary policy, and there is a good comic book guide to microeconomics and macroeconomics out there. But it is not really appropriate for younger readers; it is really aimed at economics students.

I never, never in my life took a course in economics.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

I have an economics degree from Harvard.

I'm a professor of economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics.

When I was doing my bachelors from Delhi University, India experienced its first major external financing and currency crisis in 1990-91. This inspired me to pursue graduate work in economics and was the foundation for my interest in international finance.

In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from