“To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.”

— Paul A. Baran

Source: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter Eight, The Steep Ascent, p. 300

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