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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.

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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

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I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

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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.

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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?

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: February 9th, 1943

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