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When Maximizing Individual Interests Can Make Us All Lose (usually some losing more than others)

Many experts, but not enough people, are well aware that markets can fail to achieve the goal of maximizing long-term wealth, and indeed they do fail, in ways that threaten us all in the years and decades to come (the most vulnerable or unlucky being likely to suffer more).
Published
May 10 2021
By
Yoshua Bengio
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