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In the Preface to his recent book on economic sense and nonsense in this “Age of Diminished Expectations”, the MIT economist Paul Krugman wrote:
“Why is economics such a hard subject?
Part of the answer has to do with complexity”.
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Batten, D.F. (1996). Infrastructure and the Complexity of Economic Development: An Exploratory Introduction. In: Batten, D.F., Karlsson, C. (eds) Infrastructure and the Complexity of Economic Development. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80266-9_1
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