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\"\"<\/a>Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol<\/em> was an attack on some of the then big minds of the \u201cpolitical economy\u201d movement (now called Behavioural Economics). So ya, it was an economics novella. How cool is that!? Planet Money covers the economic history behind the famous yearly tradition.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2018\/12\/21\/679213648\/episode-883-a-very-planet-money-christmas-carol<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Dickens\u2019 A Christmas Carol was an attack on some of the then big minds of the \u201cpolitical economy\u201d movement (now called Behavioural Economics). So ya, it was an economics novella. How cool is that!? 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