A Nobel prize for an economics revolution

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A Nobel prize for an economics revolution

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Oct 12, 2021

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Joshua Angrist, Guido Imbens and David Card won the economics Nobel on Monday. On today's show, we talk to the Princeton professor who mentored two of the winners.

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Oct 12, 2021

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