Career
"As I reflect on my career I am struck with how much of what I am pleased to have accomplished was initiated by good luck and by the initiative of others. During the War, deemed unfit for military service by the Army and the Navy, I landed a superb job in the Bureau of the Budget; with that experience I was admitted to Harvard Graduate School with a teaching fellowship; I was invited to join the Marshall Plan and my boss took me to Copenhagen; from there to Paris and from there to the White House. RAND was by unsolicited invitation. The Kennedy Administration drew colleagues into influential positions and gave me access to senior officials. National Academy of Sciences committees approached me unexpected. I've had all the advantages. And now the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel promises more opportunities". Tomas Shelling