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The Importance of Numbers - with Tim Harford

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You Shouldn't Quit Economics

I wasn't particularly interested in economics. I didn't take a lot of the early economic classes that seriously. If i found them interesting, i'd get stuck in. But i had it in my mind that i would quit economics at the end of the first year. And there's an interesting, to me, insight into the way you can get yourself stuck in a particular way of thinking and not really take on board new informationThat should have been taken on board is you actually like economics, your good at economics. The fact that you came into this subject assuming you would drop it, you probably need to rethink that.

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