--- Barry Rene DeCicco <bdecicco at umich.edu> wrote: > >
> However (at least in statistics), the author doesn't
> quote previous
> articles in their entirety.
>
This is also the standard practice in economics, usually for the reason that the cited article doesn't say what the author claims it says.
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