The sixth president of the university, Lawrence Kimpton, described the university as a place "where one is always in principle allowed to pose the hardest question possible of a student, a teacher, a colleague and feel entitled to expect gratitude rather than resentment for one's effort"
Romer enrolled in several courses as he prepared to write his thesis. He connected with a couple other economists José Scheinkman, and Robert Lucas. Scheinkman agreed to supervise Romer's dissertation and Lucas joined the committee soon after.
A for Will.
ReplyDeleteThose 2 years doing economics on his own helped Romer to pass those exams, don't you think?
Scheinkman is another big name guy, and he was involved in trade research in the late 1970's. So not only could he help Romer with the math, but he would have also been aware of what Krugman was doing with incorporating increasing returns into a general equilibrium model.