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This year's Nobel prize celebrated the work of the economists who popularised randomised controlled trials, “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. But is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Tim Phillips investigates.
Picture © Nobel Media 2019. Illustration: Niklas Elmehed
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