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Ronald Coase Quotes: If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves,
         

If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?"


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