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Information: Interfering with Price Signals

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The subject of this section is primarily the transfer of information among economic actors. A closely related concern is distortion of the information caused by various interventions. We note that we are always trying to plan action into the future, while the future is always uncertain, or unknowable. Even prospective calculations are based on data from the immediate past.

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    Ronald A. Chadderton

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Chadderton, R.A. (2015). Information: Interfering with Price Signals. In: Purposeful Engineering Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18848-5_7

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