Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology. (Nathan Myhrvold)

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

Nathan Myhrvold

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