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This chapter briefly summarizes how we got to the 2008 crisis and what human factors shaped the formation of the 2008 crisis, also called the Great Recession. Some of these factors were already-known sides of human nature, which were mentioned in the literature of other disciplines. The crisis reminded us our sides economics and finance have long ignored.
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Erdem, O. (2020). The 2008 Crisis. In: After the Crash. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43343-7_3
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