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Introduction to Thinking About Economics
I would like to say at the outset that I am an economist only in the sense that I am interested in how markets work and aim to pay my bills on time. I do not have formal economics training...
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Competition and Knowledge
Among sports fans, there are always arguments about who the best team is. We can argue all we want about why we think one hockey team is better than another, but, in the end, the only way to actually know which team is better is to play the game and see what happens. Fundamentally, what it means to... Read more
