Education and Early Career
Ruttan received a B.A. at Yale University in 1948, an M.A. at the University of Chicago in 1950, and a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1952.
At the University of Chicago, Ruttan studied with Theodore Schultz, who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1979.
Ruttan held positions earlier in his career at the Tennessee Valley Authority, Purdue University, the President's Council of Economic Advisors, the Rockefeller Foundation at the International Rice Research Institute in The Philippines, and President of the Agricultural Development Council.
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