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    How Your Values Shape Economic Policy Choices

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    Discover why economic policy isn't about rational self-interest-it's about competing values and visions of society. Explore fascinating research on how our deepest beliefs drive everything from tax preferences to climate action.

    How Your Values Shape Economic Policy Choices

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    Economic policy isn't really about economics in the narrow sense; it's about values, relationships, and competing visions of what kind of society we want to live in.

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