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Steve Salop's avatar

If the asteroid is controlled by a monopolist, he will prevent this disaster. If only the monopolist were a company owned by all the people (eg the government).

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Jadrian Wooten's avatar

So you're saying we're doomed?

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Mark Dykeman's avatar

Economics truly is the dismal science.

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Jadrian Wooten's avatar

I like to consider ourselves the social science version of Myth Busters!

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Allison Anthony's avatar

This also reminded me of Mali’s great emperor Mansa Musa (14th c) who gave out some much gold during his pilgrimage to Mecca that it caused the value to collapse in Cairo that took years to recover.

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Jadrian Wooten's avatar

brb while I go dig through wikipedia for the rest of the day

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