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TIL Joan Robinson was denied Nobel Prize in Economics because she supported Mao's Economic Policies and of all 93 Economics Nobel Prize winners only 10 winners have been cited more widely than Robinson. Future Nobel Prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen were the students of hers

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