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Click here to listen to an interview with Arthur MacEwan about his article from our September/October 2023 issue.

Published in: The D&S Debrief

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Arthur MacEwan is a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and one of the founders of Dollars & Sense.

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