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Introduction: Big Data in Political Economy

Atif Mian, Howard Rosenthal
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2016, 2 (7) 1-10; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.7.01
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aTheodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University
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