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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.
- Discrimination
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Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to public schools, and while Gary was, like most American cities, racially segregated, it was at least socially integrated - a cross section of children from families of all walks of life.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth.
- Exist
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- Nov 07, 2020
If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.
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- Nov 07, 2020