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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

the rise and fall of free market economics

by John Cassidy

411 pages · 2021

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Describes the rising influence of "utopian economies"--The thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can bring on disaster. Combining on-the-ground reporting and clear explanations of economic theories Cassidy warns that in today's economic crisis, following old orthodoxies isn't just misguided--it's downright dangerous

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