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What first attracted you to study economics and become an economist?
I graduated from college in 1932. As a college student I had majored jointly
in economics and mathematics and when I graduated I was offered two
postgraduate scholarships. At that time there weren’t any such things as our
current generous fellowships; graduate scholarships consisted of somebody
offering to pay for your tuition, period. I was offered one in mathematics at
Brown and one in economics at Chicago. Now put yourself in 1932 with a
quarter of the population unemployed. What was the important urgent problem?
It was obviously economics and so there was never any hesitation on
my part to study economics. When I first started in college I was very
ignorant about these matters because I grew up in a rather low-income family
which had no particular understanding of the broader world. I was very much
interested in and pretty good at mathematics. So I looked around to see if
there was any way I could earn a living by mathematics. The only way I
could find before I went to college was to become an actuary, and so my
original ambition when entering college was to become an actuary. I did take
some of the actuarial exams in my first two years at college, but I never
continued after that.
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