Dr Sam Wylie

Yeah, thanks for inviting me.

Well, I sort of became an economist, not exactly by accident, but I started off as an engineer, went to work for the federal government for a bit.

Thought about studying an MBA and then was drawn into economics.

Went overseas with my wife, Tracy, went to London and she worked for the city of Westminster.

And I did a PhD at the University of London.

And then we went to America for seven years and I was a professor at Dartmouth University.

And then we came back to Australia and I've been at the University of Melbourne ever since.

since then.

And so I teach in the business school at the University of Melbourne, not in the economics department, not in the undergraduate economics department, but in the graduate business school.

You know, universities have got graduate schools for medicine and law and architecture and veterinary science and business.

Yeah, and so that's where I teach.

And I work on things to do with banks, to do with corporations, to do with wealth management, etc.,

Well, economics is science.

It's a social science.

It's not a physical science like physics or chemistry or biological science or a life science.

It's not one of those sciences.

It's a social science like psychology or sociology or the like.

It deals with humans.

And in particular, it deals with how people make decisions about resources.

I know that sounds like a whole bunch of jargon.