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Perché Angus Deaton, il vincitore del Premio Nobel, è così importante per l’economia. Un articolo di Justin Wolfers sul New York Times.

This is also the first Nobel to acknowledge explicitly the increasingly empirical nature of modern economic research. There are probably more such Nobels to come.
Yet for all the power that modern statistics brings, Mr. Deaton has argued forcefully that it is neither a panacea nor a substitute for economic theory.
He has been an influential counterweight against a popular strand of econometric practice arguing that if you want to know whether something works, you should just test it, preferably with a randomized control trial

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