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If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

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In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

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If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas

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This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those whose people eat to live; and those whose people don't know where their next meal is coming from.

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David Landes

Born: April 29, 1924
Died: August 17, 2013 (aged 89)
Bio: David Saul Landes was a professor of economics and of history at Harvard University. He is the author of Bankers and Pashas, Revolution in Time, The Unbound Prometheus, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Dynasties.
Known for:
  1. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1998)
  2. The Unbound Prometheus (1969)
  3. Revolution in Time (1983)

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