Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some ‘reputable’ economist, since there is no single standard to which all ‘reputable’ economists must repair.
BARBARA BERGMANN
The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.
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