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Recent years have seen fundamental criticism pointed at mainstream economic research and economic theories. Most obvious was the failure of most economists to foresee the financial crisis which shaped current world economies and politics so deeply and had such a profound impact on daily life of many people. In the face of the crisis macroeconomic theories by and large turned out not only to be unable to foresee the problems in advance but also to provide a coherent model of explanation which would have allowed to define clear strategies on how best to counter the crisis.
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Beckenbach, F., Kahlenborn, W. (2016). Introduction. In: Beckenbach, F., Kahlenborn, W. (eds) New Perspectives for Environmental Policies Through Behavioral Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16793-0_1
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