Thomas J. Sargent

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.

I'm happy to say I am a Harrison-Kreps-Keynesian.

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.