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There is, as always, much truth in old sayings. I ended up in Sweden, by way of Kyoto in Japan, with a wish to study economics under Gunnar Myrdal by the purest of accidents. However, ‘the hand of fate’ gracefully guided me to Björn Thalberg’s advanced undergraduate course in growth theory.
Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
(William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2, emphasis added)
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Velupillai, K. (1992). Björn Thalberg — Teacher, Mentor and Friend. In: Velupillai, K. (eds) Nonlinearities, Disequilibria and Simulation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12227-1_2
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