Economists' Tribal Thinking
Cultural anthropology can help explain why the downturn caught everyone by surprise: Experts around the world tend to focus on the same mathematical models, looking for patterns in the same limited number of places.
Gillian Tett
Gillian Tett is the U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times. She is the author of The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers.
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