Now that the school year has begun, I have fresh fodder for my blog in the form of funny quotes from Econ professors. Amusingly enough, it seems that I’m destined to have quotable professors who just happen to share the same name. Look at the material I managed to get just from day one! Too bad neither of them respond positively to “Professor X.”

In introduction, why study macroeconomics?

Unlike microeconomics, macroeconomics is actually useful! At cocktail parties, you always hear people talking about the interest rate, or the growth rate of the economy. Rarely will you hear people talking about the marginal rate of substitution.

Don’t you wish there were real experiments in social science?

We cannot go to Boliva and blow up the entire country to see what happens, but sometimes politicians will do that for us.

Reassuring the first years that we all got admitted for a reason.

You all have different attributes. Some of you have excellent math backgrounds. Some of you are excellent economists. Some of you even speak English….

Does increased investment lead to economic growth?

Many people believe that investment is the answer. Including one of the world’s most important economists, in fact a professor here… Angelina Jolie.

And finally, a confidence-boosting statement from the Micro TA:

I don’t want to scare you guys, but the first year of the PhD program is going to be hell, and Micro is a big contributing factor to the hellishness.

Welcome back to school, I suppose.