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America and Europe differ with regard to what economics is understood to be, how it is practiced, and how professional academic economists behave. In our view, three differences are especially relevant.
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Eichenberger, R. (1999). Academia: American and European Economics and Economists. In: Economics as a Science of Human Behaviour. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5187-4_8
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