Tim Harford - Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engin...

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Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in the Second World War, he had come back. He had switched to sociology because he wanted to understand how people could do these terrible things to each other. And he did a little bit of economics on the side.

Tim Harford

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Bill Phillips war dieser nervöse, rauchende Student. Er hatte sich als Ingenieur angemeldet, war im Zweiten Weltkrieg weggegangen, war zurückgekehrt. Er war zur Soziologie gewechselt, weil er wissen wollte, wie Menschen diese schrecklichen Dinge miteinander tun können. Nebenbei hat er ein bisschen Wirtschaft betrieben.

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