Initially Basu found economics dry and unappealing, but while at the London School of Economics he was completely taken in by the lure of the free-floating deductive reasoning on which economics is founded and decided to make that his career.

• 最初巴苏觉得经济学枯燥乏味，但在伦敦政经学院期间，彻底迷上经济学创建基础的自由演绎推理，而以此为一生事业。