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and finance. In addition to a number of articles published in accredited journals, he has written 11 books, of which the following have been the most notable:
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in 1954 and 1956 respectively. He then moved to the United States, where he pursued a PhD in economics and sociology from the
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In 1995, he was awarded an
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