Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, At The Convocation For The Department Of Economics, Howard University, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2016, Why Study Economics?

I am very pleased to visit today with the students and faculty of the Howard University Economics Department. First, a fact that you know but others may not: The Howard University Economics Department is the only producer of economics Ph.D.'s among the nation's historically black colleges and universities, and it has been teaching economics to undergraduates for nearly a century.¹