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What Bob Dylan can teach us about economics

20 August 2022

9:00 AM

20 August 2022

9:00 AM

The problem with attempts to make everything in life more scientific is that reality hates generalisation. You can try to formulate universal laws, but in any complex system even the smallest contextual difference or hidden asymmetry can be enough to rewrite those laws completely.

Economics refers to something called ‘the market’, the laws of which supposedly govern all economic activity.

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