Social Engineers Changing the World
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چکیده
As part of a book symposium on Erwin Dekker's Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise Economic Expertise (2021), Mariana Mortágua Francisco Louçã reflect context Tinbergen’s evolution and, more specifically, his change(s) focus how to engineer social progress compared that closest colleagues, Ragnar Frisch.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Erasmus journal for philosophy and economics
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1876-9098']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v15i2.657