How I Became an Economist

Paul Samuelson

No 1970-4, Nobel Prize in Economics documents from Nobel Prize Committee

Abstract: From one point of view my studying economics was the result of accidental blind chance. Prior to graduating from high school I was born again at 8:00 a.m., January 2, 1932, when I first walked into the University of Chicago lecture hall. That day's lecture was on Malthus's theory that human populations would reproduce like rabbits until their density per acre of land reduced their wage to a bare subsistence level where an increased death rate came to equal the birth rate. So easy was it to understand all this simple differential equation stuff that I suspected (wrongly) that I was missing out on some mysterious complexity.

Keywords: autobiography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 pages
Date: 2003-09-05
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