Biography
Schultz was born in Arlington, South Dakota and enrolled in South Dakota State College in 1921 to study agriculture. He graduated in 1927, then entered the University of Wisconsin–Madison earning his doctorate in Agricultural Economics in 1930.
He taught at Iowa State College from 1930 to 1943, and served as the chair of economics at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1961. He became president of the American Economic Association in 1960.
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