Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Paul Romer, Pages 196-198
Paul Romer was born and raised in Colorado, where his father ran businesses, practiced law, and later served as governor. Romer entered the University of Chicago in the summer of 1973. His original intentions were to study cosmology, and he later toyed with the idea of becoming a corporate lawyer. It was a course in price theory that pushed Romer into the field of economics. After graduating from Chicago, Romer was admitted to MIT where, as result of a burglar in his apartment, he met his wife. He moved with his new wife to Canada for a year, and then returned to the University of Chicago to write his dissertation.
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A for Jim.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what to make about a mother who puts you in private school because you were cast as a tree in an elementary school play. I guess Romer turned out OK though. I wonder if he likes his Mom?
BTW: "Fischer's Lectures On Macroeconomics was not the fashionable graduate macro text when Romer was at MIT in the late 1970's because it didn't come out until the late 1980's.