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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. Bailouts — not just the ones after the crisis but also prior ones, such as that of Long Term Capital in 1998 — aggravated the problem of “moral hazard” that informational imperfections can engender.

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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. Bailouts — not just the ones after the crisis but also prior ones, such as that of Long Term Capital in 1998 — aggravated the problem of “moral hazard” that informational imperfections can engender.