mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com - 22 days ago
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I came across this interesting paper from William Breit and Barry Hirsch which looks at above question:
This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) and published in Lives of the ...
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