i was fairly certain it was because once people got to know him , and people in academia , while cloistered and self-aggrandizing , still had some insight into others , especially those whose jobs were to discover potential professors once they got to know him , they recognized that he was not a very effective educator because he hated his subject in as much as he hated everything and the only reason he had drifted into teaching economics was because after years of studying the economy in the hopes that he could attain some measure of wealth , he discovered that he had no talent for acquiring wealth .