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February 5, 2015 17 12

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Dan, your remarks provide no justification for why your article and APDA' work more generally disregards the large body of work that I and other

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Having thought about it more, I fear that my initial proposal would demand too much time from instructors/graders. So here's an alternative: have students use […]

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Could a further, potentially non-competiting explanation concern the increase in the types of positions which are available , e.g. in value theory, political and social

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