I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.
Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
