Oct 12, 2021

How a Nobel Prize winner challenged some common economic thinking

Nobel Prize winner David Card discusses his work around the thinking behind minimum wage.

Also today: We also look into those confusing letters from the IRS that tell you that you've made a mistake.

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Nobel Prize Economist David Card on testing Econ 101 theories in the real world

by Daniel Shin and Rose Conlon

Oct 12, 2021

UC Berkeley Economist David Card reflects on his now Nobel Prize winning research.

David Card won the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in developing research tools that help economists to use real-life situations to test big theories.

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