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Outside the Box

'... Now more than ever - beset as we are by outrageous levels of inequality, political corruption and environmental destruction — economists, politicians and the broader public need to begin thinking outside the box.

'The capitalist system has had more than 200 years to get it right; isn’t it more than reasonable, even imperative, to broaden our discourse about economic possibilities?'

Letter to the Editor
New York Times
March 15, 2014

Julie Matthaei
Paul Zarembka,
professors of economics at Wellesley
College and the University at Buffalo,
SUNY, respectively.

 

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