“Byron came to grad school at the tender age of 43, and had some desire to become a professor and eventually did it. He was an interesting mix, he was a true bohemian in many respects.”
“In some respects, economics is purely a way of thinking, a form of religion if you will, a philosophical base as to how one should approach the world and he believed in this approach.”
“He was one of the few people that could shut everybody up. He knew exactly what was going on. He cut many professors off by the knees. Someone would come in with an argument and he knew how to prove them wrong.”
