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The First Behavioral Economist

Sutherland: Who Adam Smith would have to be one of them, I mean, you know solving economics is really easy It's be more like Adam Smith. Esop is basically a collector of what you might call paradoxes and You know apparent contradictions in human behavior. Another person who'd be high on there would be Possibly a great writer of detective fictional Conan dial or someone you know that that kind Crosswords cryptic crosswords where what you have to do is see what people don't want you to see Okay And he had this children's book when he was about six or seven which is like illustrated Town most in the country most illustrated a esop's fables for some reason loved.

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