Books Mentioned in This Episode

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Essays in positive economics

by Milton Friedman

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"When you look at Friedman's work on say the 53 positive economics book, he says economists must rely on evidence gleaned from the experiments that happen to occur."
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Economics, an introductory analysis

by Paul Anthony Samuelson, Nordhaus, William D., William D. Nordhaus

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"The first book I used was in 1985. It was by Samuelson and Nordhaus."
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The economics of discrimination

by Gary Stanley Becker

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"On the one hand is what Gary Becker wrote about in his dissertation in 1957, which is people just get satisfaction out of hurting another person in a different group—that's one kind of theory."