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Maintenance Phase

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Is This a Rogue Economist?

Michael Wolraich: The article tries to establish him as like a rogue economist and outside of the structures of the field while acknowledging that he's a tenured professor at the University of Chicago. He also, there's another piece of foreshadowing that says, one paper he wrote as a graduate student is still regularly cited. His question was disarmingly simple; do more police translate into less crime? Wolraich said it wasn't proved but Levitt came up with an ingenious way to test his theory.

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