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Brian Epstein, “The Social World, Reexamined” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Economics

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The Role of Society Education in the Economic Crisis

The economic crisis that started in two thousand eight was, let's be charitable and say, very poorly foreseen by the economic community. And so if we have a system which doesn't really punish people for being wrong, presumably that diminishes the incentives for people to look seriously at their situation. A lot of the people who just sound best on t v, or who sound most confident,. are not the smartest people, or not the people who arewho who necessarily have the best opinions.

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