There was considerable danger they'd be forgotten and their contributions buried,

We've come a long way and we still have a ways to go. The biggest danger is that some don't know from whence we came.

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.