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" A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands. "
Rise
Growth
Growing
" Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth? "
Country
Economic
Growth
" Economists must always be prepared for surprises: they find many in trying to find order in the universe of their study. "
Universe
Trying
Find
" It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt. "
School
Research
Intellectual
" I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I. "
Parents
Born
World
" Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology. "
Growth
Technology
Science
" Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation. "
Brief
Should
Memorable
" Success in war and preservation of a country's social framework as a purpose at least equal in importance to welfare of individuals. "
War
Success
Purpose
" The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas. "
Growth
Communication
Process
" The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP. "
Welfare
Measurement
Income
" War and peace type products... cannot be added into a national product total until the differences in the valuation due to differences in the institutional mechanisms that determine their respective market prices are corrected for. "
War
Differences
Market
" When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided the key to social structure and social problems - it never crossed my mind that one day I might be the honored recipient of a Nobel Memorial Prize. "
Problems
Key
Mind
" With the rather stable ratio of labor force to total population, a high rate of increase in per capita product means a high rate of increase in product per worker; and, with average hours of work declining, it means still higher growth rates in product per man-hour. "
Growth
Work
Product
" With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method. "
World
Within
Special
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