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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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"Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor."

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

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

"Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist."

"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."

"But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs."

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

"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."

"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."

"As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns."

"I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced."
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