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Maple Posted 20 years ago
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If I may ask one more thing about that introduction of Freakonomics, could you please paraphrase the hightlighted sentence?
This book boasts no such unifying theme. We did consider, for about six minutes, writing a book that would revolve around a single theme — the theory and practice of applied microeconomics, anyone? — but opted instead for a sort of treasure-hunt approach.
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This article is attractive but really difficult to me. Thanks a million!
This book boasts no such unifying theme. We did consider, for about six minutes, writing a book that would revolve around a single theme — the theory and practice of applied microeconomics, anyone? — but opted instead for a sort of treasure-hunt approach.
its source: http://www.harperacademic.com/catalog/book_essay_xml.asp?isbn=006073132X#top
This article is attractive but really difficult to me. Thanks a million!
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We did consider, for about six minutes, writing a book that would revolve around a single theme — the theory and practice of applied microeconomics, anyone? — but opted instead for a sort of treasure-hunt approach. We thought briefly about writing a book with a single theme; for example, 'The Theory and Practice of Applied Microeconomics'.
- We did consider, for about six minutes, writing a book that would revolve around a single theme — the theory and practice of applied microeconomics, anyone?
- — but opted instead for a sort of treasure-hunt approach.
- We thought briefly about writing a book with a single theme; for example, 'The Theory and Practice of Applied Microeconomics'.
- However, we chose to write about the many different facets of economics, moving from one component to another.
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We did consider, for about six minutes, writing a book that would revolve around a single theme — the theory and practice of applied microeconomics, anyone? — but opted instead for a sort of treasure-hunt approach.
We thought briefly about writing a book with a single theme; for example, 'The Theory and Practice of Applied Microeconomics'. However, we chose to write about the many differ
We thought briefly about writing a book with a single theme; for example, 'The Theory and Practice of Applied Microeconomics'. However, we chose to write about the many differ
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