Tonight's lesson for my students: Esther Duflo on finding data: "I traced the reference for the document that said where the schools were built. All that was needed was a trip to Indonesia to copy that book..."https://promarket.org/esther-duflo-how-to-find-the-right-questions/ …
IIRC, Skidelsky has written that after completing one volume of his Keynes bio, he realized he needed to know more economics in order to complete the job. So he got a PhD in the subject. That's dedication to a research project...
