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My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.

Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.

The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention.

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.

I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.

I've always been a macroeconomist. That's what I teach. And I guess that's what I've been concerned with ever since I've been very young.

Keynesian economics has always been needed.

The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.

I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we're focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.

The failure of credit markets is one of the major reasons for underdevelopment.