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When the meaning is in the method

Two Nobel-prizewinning economists show how problems should be solved

The pursuit of reason

Good Economics for Hard Times. By Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. PublicAffairs; 432 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25.

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