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Edward Mason had a significant impact on the economics profession in four disparate areas: through his influence on the Harvard Economics Department; through his role in two separate sub-fields of the discipline – industrial and development economics; and by exemplifying the dual role of academic and practitioner.
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Papanek, G.F. (2018). Mason, Edward Sagendorph (1899–1992). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_996
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