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Amen.
While normal ecclesiastic practice places this word at the end of the prayer, on this occasion it seems right to put it up front. In two sentences, Professor Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate in Economics for 2008 and in some ways the leading economist of our time, has summed up the failure of an entire era in economic thought, practice and policy discussion.
Of course, there were exceptions to these trends: a few economists challenged the assumption of rational behavior, questioned the belief that financial markets can be trusted and pointed to the long history of financial crises that had devastating economic consequences. But they were swimming against the tide, unable to make much headway against a pervasive and, in retrospect, foolish complacency. (Paul Krugman, New York Times Magazine, September 6, 2009)
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Galbraith, J.K. (2012). Who Are These Economists, Anyway?. In: Papadimitriou, D.B., Zezza, G. (eds) Contributions in Stock-flow Modeling. Levy Institute Advanced Research in Economic Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230367357_4
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