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— John Kenneth Galbraith"It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds."
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If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.
— Robert Emerson Coleman
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I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called "organic" methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot.
— Norman Borlaug
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