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How Today’s Egg Prices Scrambled Traditional Economic Theories - Econlib

How Today’s Egg Prices Scrambled Traditional Economic Theories - Econlib

Late one night in 1989, economist Jeffrey Sachs found himself in a smoke-filled room of government officials in Warsaw, Poland. The country had  just declared independence from the Soviet Union, which had exerted central control over prices of tens of thousands of items, leading to frequent shortages. Sachs argued to the economists and politicians that […]

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