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Prediction failure/successful remedies?

Dan Crawford | February 17, 2011 8:40 am

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative’s Stephen Gordon suggests “that even if an economic model cannot predict market failure, it can still be quite valuable in helping with the remedy”.

Lots of thoughts occur to me, but will join the discussion in comments.

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3 Comments
  • Rdan says:
    February 17, 2011 at 10:32 am

    http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2011/02/back-in-news-embarrassment-known-as.html

    One answer on a sub-set of predictions follow the link.

  • Ken Houghton says:
    February 17, 2011 at 11:21 am

    That is the link you should make into a post, Dan.

  • Rdan says:
    February 17, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Tomorrow. 

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