I’m convinced

I should not be an economics major. I don’t enjoy the classes as much as I should and it’s not like I’m doing that well, anyway. Ironically, the guy who convinced me was Alan Sanderson, a big shot on the economics faculty. He said that he was a math major in college and that he switched to economics because he didn’t want to be a math major and thought that it would be a good application of his math skills. The thing is, I don’t enjoy math, nor do I enjoy the purely theoretical approach taken by the Chicago school of economics. Is psychology and law, letters, and society the way to go for me? I guess we’ll find out after this quarter.

So, a story told by Professor Sanderson. He was in Japan giving a lecture and he was wondering if he should bring up Professor Levitt’s work on the corruption in sumo wrestling. The lecture was going pretty well, so he decided to mention it, to what the Japanese economics responded, “Yeah, that’s probably right.” Needless to say, Professor Sanderson was somewhat surprised.