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Understanding the Game Being Played in Washington

Harvard Business Review

In other words, it’s an interaction among “agents” who “base their decisions on limited information about actions of other agents in the recent past, and they do not always optimize.”. But the don’t-push-it-too-far-with-the-debt-ceiling convention is, like most political norms, subject to revision. That quote is from economist H.