He was a Texan. That's how your parents met. That's an amazing story. Yeah, it is. And when dad was a child psychologist he was more aligned with Carl Jung than Freud. And my mother was a role plays musicals for elementary school. When she retired she was principal of the largest elementary school in Houston. So you had the example of your parents who were both in academics. Did you know at a young age that you wanted to be an economist or was there some other general sense of what you wanted to do and that sort of realization of your interest in economics came later? No. When I went to Sweeney in 1960 I wanted to be a doctor, medical doctor. And for the first year and a half I was taking all the pre-med courses. And then in the spring of 1962 I had time for my first elective and I took the principles of economics. And at the end of the spring semester I switched my major. I found my true law of economics. What attracted you to economics? Just fascinated me. I read a book by Hal (7/41)
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