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"From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford."
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"I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues."
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