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Thursday, August 16, 2012
Economics Moment of Zen #5
"Do not use words like "dramatic". First of all, economics has no drama. Second, writing that something is dramatic eliminates the drama. Writing that something is "very big" makes it small."
From an anonymous referee report received by a student.
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