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Food for Thought: William Shutkin

At bottom, the economic crisis is not about subprime mortgages, credit default swaps and the avarice of investment bankers. It’s not really about the economy at all. Rather, it’s about our ability as Americans to acknowledge our mistakes and to commit to correcting them. It’s about our capacity to move beyond entrenched mental models and behaviors and to engage reality on its own terms. It’s a crisis of culture. Continue reading

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