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Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 6 / 2009 (535)

The bubble of ideologies

„It is said that all Cambridge scholars call zero aught
and all Oxford scholars call it
naught.”
Apud John D. Barrow

“The fact that I am here is a low probability effect,
and I have the tendency to forget this.”

Nicholas Taleb

The strangest thing brought about by the global crisis is the resuscitation of ideological perspectives. There is little doubt that peculiarity is a derivative of the lack of understanding. In this case, the opacity of causes and the inefficiency of solutions to the crisis have generated the massive recourse to the sufficiency of ideologies.

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