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Chapter 19, Problem 2IP
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The validity of the statement that an economist knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
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Why will economics never be an exact science?
No sciences are exact.
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You may not conduct experiments on people.
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“Owen saw that the price of peaches had gone down, and so he decided to buy
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