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ECONOMISTS IN LITERATURE 
- Arthur awoke to the sound of an argument and went to the bridge. Ford was waving his arms about. "You're crazy, Zaphod," he was saying, "Magrathea is a myth, a fairy story, it's what parents tell their kids about at night if they want them to grow up to become economists, it's..." 
   Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979.

- I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.
    Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

ECONOMISTS IN TRAINING


This is my study group from my first year in graduate school at Yale. They are now teaching economics at the University of Wisconsin, Goethe University Frankfurt, Tufts University, USC and Stanford Law School. They are also working as economists at the World Bank, the IMF and J.P. Morgan.

ECONOMISTS IN REAL LIFE