Doing Economics

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Doing Economics

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Doing Economics
What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t
Marc F. Bellemare
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England

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© 2022 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bellemare, Marc F., author.
Title: Doing economics : what you should have learned in grad school—but didn’t / Marc F.
Bellemare.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2022. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021038731 | ISBN 9780262543552 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Economics—Study and teaching (Higher) | Economists. | Proposal writing for
grants. | Mentoring. | Life skills.
Classification: LCC HB74.5 .B49 2022 | DDC 330.071—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021038731
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For Sophia, who I hope will more easily figure out the rules of whatever
game she chooses to play.
And for Janet, whose love of her fellow creatures inspires me daily to
become a better version of myself.

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