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The Functioning of the Free Market

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Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. Temperatures are breaking records every year. We see more forest fires and floods than ever before. While there is a broad consensus on the influence of our actions on climate change, changes in behaviour and policy are slow in coming, and perhaps too late.

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Correspondence to Margreet Boersma-de Jong .

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Boersma-de Jong, M., de Jong, G. (2023). The Functioning of the Free Market. In: Foundations of a Sustainable Market Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28186-0_1

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