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