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The economy and the power of illusions

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Andreas Neuhaus | Simon Bone
April 28, 2020

Companies, politicians, ordinary citizens can all fall for deceptions and succumb to delusions. What illusions bedevil the economy? We review the history from Plato’s allegory of the cave to government failure to company strategies that don't pan out.

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