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

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis.

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

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. For an example, reconsider the financial crisis.

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Who Fixes the Euro?

Harvard Business Review

Talking to an Irish friend recently, I got a splendid take on the euro-crisis. As he pointed out, there are two sides to the growing European sovereign debt crisis. Even if Europe gets through the current crisis, politicians need to face up to what it tells us about the euro-venture. Think about the pensions crisis.

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