The “Maximize Profits” Trap in Decision Making
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Somehow, a theoretical assumption, widely used in a one cluster of academic specialties — economics, finance, econometric modeling, and the like — became transformed, primarily in the United States near the end of the 20th century, into a supreme decision principle. The rationale for profit maximization is basically pragmatic.
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