Glenn Loury

I did. One didn't finish. He was from Kansas City by coincidence, and he left after a couple of years and never finished his degree. The other teaches at Harvard now and is a dear friend whom I've known for 50 years.

It was absolutely top-notch. I mean, it was—it's just technical stuff. And, you know, you were challenged, and the people that you were studying with and competing against— They had come from Israel and India and Japan and the UK and Russia, and they were the best in the world cohort of young prospective economists. And it was very rigorous, very mathematical. It was MIT, after all.

It was absolutely top-notch. I mean, it was—it's just technical stuff. And, you know, you were challenged, and the people that you were studying with and competing against— They had come from Israel and India and Japan and the UK and Russia, and they were the best in the world cohort of young prospective economists. And it was very rigorous, very mathematical. It was MIT, after all.

It was absolutely top-notch. I mean, it was—it's just technical stuff. And, you know, you were challenged, and the people that you were studying with and competing against— They had come from Israel and India and Japan and the UK and Russia, and they were the best in the world cohort of young prospective economists. And it was very rigorous, very mathematical. It was MIT, after all.

It was Paul Samuelson, after all. They were green eye shade types with the math and the equations and the statistics and the analysis. But they also had something of an interest, a political flair, as I say, moderate Democrat, left of center, but not really socialist. appreciating the market, but thinking about the mixed economy and regulation and stuff.

It was Paul Samuelson, after all. They were green eye shade types with the math and the equations and the statistics and the analysis. But they also had something of an interest, a political flair, as I say, moderate Democrat, left of center, but not really socialist. appreciating the market, but thinking about the mixed economy and regulation and stuff.

It was Paul Samuelson, after all. They were green eye shade types with the math and the equations and the statistics and the analysis. But they also had something of an interest, a political flair, as I say, moderate Democrat, left of center, but not really socialist. appreciating the market, but thinking about the mixed economy and regulation and stuff.

Samuelson wrote a column for Newsweek every month and Milton Friedman wrote a column for Newsweek and they kind of, Friedman, the conservative from Chicago, the University of Chicago, and they were kind of in dueling perspectives. I remember. But I was in the midst of that.

Samuelson wrote a column for Newsweek every month and Milton Friedman wrote a column for Newsweek and they kind of, Friedman, the conservative from Chicago, the University of Chicago, and they were kind of in dueling perspectives. I remember. But I was in the midst of that.

Samuelson wrote a column for Newsweek every month and Milton Friedman wrote a column for Newsweek and they kind of, Friedman, the conservative from Chicago, the University of Chicago, and they were kind of in dueling perspectives. I remember. But I was in the midst of that.

Well, there was a lot of debate about economics and about monetarism and Keynesianism and whatnot, about regulation and laissez-faire and whatnot. Yeah.

Well, there was a lot of debate about economics and about monetarism and Keynesianism and whatnot, about regulation and laissez-faire and whatnot. Yeah.

Well, there was a lot of debate about economics and about monetarism and Keynesianism and whatnot, about regulation and laissez-faire and whatnot. Yeah.

Yeah, I've kind of fallen away from economics, to be honest with you. These last 10, 15 years, I've become a guy that talks more about the culture issues myself. And now with the new administration, Trump, and with the tariffs and the changes in economic policy, there's more talk. It's very arch, it's very partisan, but there's more talk. But yeah.

Yeah, I've kind of fallen away from economics, to be honest with you. These last 10, 15 years, I've become a guy that talks more about the culture issues myself. And now with the new administration, Trump, and with the tariffs and the changes in economic policy, there's more talk. It's very arch, it's very partisan, but there's more talk. But yeah.

Yeah, I've kind of fallen away from economics, to be honest with you. These last 10, 15 years, I've become a guy that talks more about the culture issues myself. And now with the new administration, Trump, and with the tariffs and the changes in economic policy, there's more talk. It's very arch, it's very partisan, but there's more talk. But yeah.

Well, I want to distinguish between a specialized program of graduate study at MIT and a general education program for undergraduates at Brown. I think if I were to compare economics PhD study at Brown today to that at MIT in the early It would be a different kind of comparison.

Well, I want to distinguish between a specialized program of graduate study at MIT and a general education program for undergraduates at Brown. I think if I were to compare economics PhD study at Brown today to that at MIT in the early It would be a different kind of comparison.

Well, I want to distinguish between a specialized program of graduate study at MIT and a general education program for undergraduates at Brown. I think if I were to compare economics PhD study at Brown today to that at MIT in the early It would be a different kind of comparison.

There, the issue would be how the field has changed, the questions that are prominent, the techniques that are employed to investigate them. And there, I would focus a lot on the revolution of data analysis that...