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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Here a few notable examples. Economists and finance.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

Heres how Antoin Murphy , one of the few scholars to have studied these strikes, which took place in the 1970s, describes it: "a highly personalized credit system without any definite time horizon for the eventual clearance of debits and credits substituted for the existing institutionalized banking system."

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