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This book is about ironies in the ordinary business of life. These aspects deal with how people produce, exchange, and consume goods and services. A subtle irony may reside in the fact that no matter how careful we are in performing these activities, the results do not always come out the way we intend. For instance, we may want natural resources and the environment to be sustained for future generations, so we choose to make the best net productive capacity available to them. Yet this does not necessarily guarantee that some unique species of animal or plant will not become extinct. This view indicates the serious side of ironies.
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© 2014 Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan
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Szenberg, M., Ramrattan, L. (2014). Introduction. In: Economic Ironies Throughout History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137450821_1
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