Comment on Profit-Price Spiral: Excess Profits Fuelling Inflation, Not WagesparentComments−diordiderot3yIn software the phenomenon is called best practices.Think of Chicago School and MIT economists as Meta and Amazon leads.In finance they say, 'no one ever got fired for buying IBM'−Fervicus3yInteresting point. I could agree with this analogy if different countries had "bought IBM" at different times and thus made the same mistake. But what has happened here is that many countries have bought IBM together at the same time.
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In software the phenomenon is called best practices.
Think of Chicago School and MIT economists as Meta and Amazon leads.
In finance they say, 'no one ever got fired for buying IBM'
Interesting point. I could agree with this analogy if different countries had "bought IBM" at different times and thus made the same mistake. But what has happened here is that many countries have bought IBM together at the same time.