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Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Economics professor and wearer of many hats. Economics: it’s the study of human action and its unintended consequences, and I ...