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What quantitative methods should we teach to graduate students? A comment on Swann’s “Is precise econometrics an illusion?”

Deirdre Nansen McCloskeyEmerita, Departments of History, Economics, English, and Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Correspondence[email protected]
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Stephen T. ZiliakDepartment of Economics, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, USAORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-9758-4297
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Pages 356-361 | Published online: 15 Oct 2019

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