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economists The economists themselves and the schools they founded -- Smith, Mill, Keynes, Hayek, Friedman -- rather than any one economic question.
Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Unless and until AI gets smart enough to study human society from a bird’s-eye view, I think we should be humble about how much we expect development economists to be able to contribute to developing countries’ growth policies in real time.
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↗Could development economics be more useful?noahpinion.blog
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