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What’s “normal” anyway?
February 12, 2009 | 3 Comments | Joshua Gans
From the Contents Alert Economics that appeared in my in-box today.
How about “Regular papers”? “Non-freaky” and “non-rouge” doesn’t have the same ring.
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3 Responses to “What’s “normal” anyway?”
I guess “field experiments” of massive scale, “job instability, and “episodes of large changes in fiscal stance” are all both normal and regular these days.
or how about just “Papers”?
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