Theodore Schultz - Quotes

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The dominant social thought shapes the institutionalized order of society...and the malfunctioning of established institutions in turn alters social thought. -- Theodore W. Schultz (1977)

Most people in the world are poor. If we knew the economy of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matter.

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