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Crisis of Faith in the Financial System

Harvard Business Review

From Bernie Madoff to derivatives to the housing bubble to dubious AAA credit ratings, we continue to find new ways to encourage people to make financial leaps of faith. As the Ming dynasty shows us, a properly operating financial system is both symbolic and symbiotic. In the end this money did become worthless.".

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

In this worldview, disasters only happen because the rules of the game in which the businesses operate must be flawed. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis. Nor was the government — beyond Greenspan and the Fed — blameless in the run-up to the crisis. Economy Finance' See the rest of the series here.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

In this worldview, disasters only happen because the rules of the game in which the businesses operate must be flawed. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis. Nor was the government — beyond Greenspan and the Fed — blameless in the run-up to the crisis. Economy Finance' See the rest of the series here.