10/20/09

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News. Building economic models usually involves stripping the world down to its most essential features. But simple theories often struggle to explain the way things really work. Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University and Oliver Williamson of the University of California at Berkeley, the winners of this year’s Nobel prize for economics, have both been honoured for recognising this complexity. Their research provides insights into economic institutions that play crucial roles in the real world, but to which economists have not paid enough attention.

Yet, since 1920 we have managed to move from crisis to crisis reflected by multi-year periods of poor performance in the markets and the economy.

What are we missing?

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