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ISBN 981-238-673-4

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To
Milton Friedman
Paul Samuelson
Zhao Ziyang

from whom I have learned economics

About the Author

The author is Class of 1913 Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He attended Cornell University (BA, 1951) and the University of Chicago (MA, 1952, and Ph.D., 1955). He was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at MIT and Cornell University respectively before becoming a Research Staff member and Manager of Economic Research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, from 1962 to 1970.

Between 1970 and 1997, He was the Professor of Economics...