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Tech: The future of economics?

In the Balance

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Firms like Amazon, Google and Facebook have become big employers of economists in recent years, helping them with everything from pricing adverts to marketing. Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at the California-based jobs and recruitment website Glassdoor, says data science has given the economics profession a new lease of life. (Picture: Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)

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