Biographical

Philip Dybvig
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Philip Dybvig: Washington University

No 2022-13, Nobel Prize in Economics documents from Nobel Prize Committee

Abstract: This biography is intended to talk about how my early life contributed to my development as a scholar. This is necessarily speculative, since I have no evidence of what would have happened if my early life had been different. However, my impression is that my development as a scholar built on using my brain on various passions when I was young. I have always been curious about many things, and for me the breadth of interests provided a lot of ideas that could be combined in doing research. I read most of the mystery and science fiction books and many biographies in the local public library, and I read a lot of math and science outside the relatively small amount required for school. I did a lot of experiments with my chemistry set, which unlike chemistry sets today that have been regulated down to a few experiments with dyes, had a lot of interesting chemicals including a lot of chemicals I bought that were not in the original set. I also spent a lot of time solving puzzles. I was also interested in astronomy, and I participated in a regional astronomy club where I attended meetings and built my own telescope, grinding and polishing the mirror myself. In this essay, I will focus on two other interests that seemed to have a profound impact on my development, playing music and playing games.

Keywords: Banking; Financial crises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E53 G21 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 pages
Date: 2023
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