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What Can a Young Labour Economist (or Any Economist) Learn from Bob Gregory?

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‘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)

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  • Jeff Borland, 2006. "What Can a Young Labour Economist (or Any Economist) Learn from Bob Gregory?," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 82(257), pages 122-126, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:82:y:2006:i:257:p:122-126
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2006.00309.x
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