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How Markets Fail: The Problem of Rational Irrationality

LSE public lecture


What caused the recent global financial crisis? Some analysts blame greed, others stupidity, yet others myopia. The real problem is more fundamental, and it relates to the inner logic of a financially driven economy that generates perverse incentives and rewards damaging behaviour.


Speaker(s):

John Cassidy | talks
Dr Paul Woolley | talks | www

 

Date and Time:

23 November 2009 at 6:30 pm

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

 

Venue:

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London School of Economics
New Academic Building
Lincoln's Inn Fields
London
WC2A 2AE


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Organised by:

London School of Economics & Political Science
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Tickets:

Free

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