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Published online 14 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021007-14
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Science advocates scoop economics Nobel
Winners refreshed economics with science and human nature.
Two researchers who breathed new life into a theory-driven field have netted this year's Nobel Prize in economics. By integrating scientific method and the study of human nature into classical economics, they spawned behavioural and experimental branches of the discipline.
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