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'The enterprise within the social sciences best poised to bridge the gap to the natural science, the one that most resembles them in style and self-confidence, is economics' (Wilson 1998, p. 195)
'The rich array of things to learn from other disciplines is too rich And not least of all, the need for economic theorists to work on something new and different is too impelling' (Kreps 1997, p. 80)
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Landa, J.T., Ghiselin, M.T. The emerging discipline of bioeconomics: aims and scope of the Journal of Bioeconomics. Journal of Bioeconomics 1, 5–12 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010099821123
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