"The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters."

Cause, Causes, Depression, Disasters

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"The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters."

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"I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis."

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"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."

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"At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory."

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"I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana."

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"My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher."

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"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."

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"The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later."

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