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Education and the Mafia - An Offer you can't Refuse!

Geoff Riley

31st May 2016

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Giovanni Mastrobuoni (University of Essex) and Ferdinando Guigliano (La Repubblica) talk about the new economic research showing that mafia criminals have more to gain from education than most other people.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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