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What Can a Young Labour Economist (or Any Economist) Learn from Bob Gregory? *
Author(s) -
BORLAND JEFF
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2006.00309.x
Subject(s) - measure (data warehouse) , economics , positive economics , classical economics , sociology , neoclassical economics , computer science , database
‘Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so. If you learn how to look at data in the right way, you can explain riddles that otherwise might have seemed impossible.’ (Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner 2005, Freakonomics, William Morrow, p. 14)