There are comparatively few significant inefficiencies in the allocation of the factors of production in traditional agriculture. - Theodore Schultz

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There are comparatively few significant inefficiencies in the allocation of the factors of production in traditional agriculture.

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About Theodore Schultz

Theodore William "Ted" Schultz (30 April 1902 – 26 February 1998) was an American economist and chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Economics, who was the 1979 winner, jointly with William Arthur Lewis, of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Native Name: Theodore William Schultz
Alternative Names: Theodore W. Schultz Teodoro Guillermo Schultz

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The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics... I learned during my youth how hard it was for farm families to stay solvent. Farm product prices fell abruptly by more than half. Banks went bankrupt and many farmers suffered foreclosures. Was politics or economics to blame? I opted for economics.

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[Schultz specifically refers to the manner in which inputs are used when he states that one implication of his] efficient but poor hypothesis... [is] that the combination of crops grown, the number of times and depth of cultivation, the time of planting, watering, and harvesting, the combination of hand tools, ditches to carry water to the fields, draft animals and simple equipment -- are all made with a fine regard for marginal costs.

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