Paul Krugman: Nobel laureate, psychohistorian.

[randomness]

From http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/who-are-you-calling-dense/, posted yesterday:

"Asimov, and specifically the Foundation trilogy, was my great inspiration; I became an economist because I wanted to be a psychohistorian, saving civilization through the mathematics of human behavior."

Comments

[ulfhirtha.livejournal.com]

An excellent reason for a career, and better than many I've heard.
. Maybe that's why he seems to be on the money, as it were ;-)

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

*groan*