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Rexford Guy Tugwell was born in 1891. As an undergraduate at the Wharton School, he was jarred by textbooks reciting classical economic theories but ignoring real life; he wrote:
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Keyserling, L.H. (2018). Tugwell, Rexford Guy (1891–1979). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1595
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