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Richard Easterlin Oral History Interview with Claudia Goldin

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Richard Easterlin

Richard Easterlin is a professor of economics at the University of Southern California and a long-time NBER researcher. He is an economic historian who has studied long-term trends in economic growth, with particular attention to the role of population change, fertility, and other aspects of demography. 

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