Economics

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

John Cassidy

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John Cassidy argues that free market economic theories fail to take into account how human behavior impacts economic decision making.  This, he says, leads to market failures like the housing market collapse.  Mr. Cassidy spoke at the Harvard Book Store.    

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John Cassidy

John Cassidy writes for the New Yorker and is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.  He is the author of "Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era." 


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How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

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