Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ that keeps the ‘body’!