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Robert C. Merton is currently the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining the faculty of Harvard in 1988, he served on the[…]

Robert Merton on the state of the economic crisis

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Robert Merton pinpoints our place in the chronology of the economic crisis (October 2008).

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