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“Muddling Through”

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If most of the previous chapters have seemed to lack a clear view of the future, you have read them correctly.

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    The description of the Beer Distribution Game is taken from Beinhocker (2006, pp. 168–171).

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    For an interesting discussion of the question of “what is money,” which is fundamental to much of economics, see Mainelli and Harris (2011), pp. 222–225.

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Carmalt, S.W. (2017). “Muddling Through”. In: The Economics of Oil. SpringerBriefs in Energy(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47819-7_9

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