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James A. Robinson

British political scientist and economist (born 1960)born 1960

Supervised 1 doctoral student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011; Wikidata names Truman Bewley as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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James A. Robinson, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata2

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 5 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 4 stated by Wikidata.

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