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Are economists taken seriously?

Across Whitehall, economists are called on to size up the issues involved in almost every policy. But should they be taken seriously? Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist, and Phil Collins, of the London School of Economics, discuss how much influence economists should have.

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