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The Soul of a New Machine Shoe

The costs of a shock tend to fall when people have time to adjust and markets have a chance to do their work.

I saw a nice illustration of this while shopping for shoes recently - manufacturers are producing and advertising a new feature: Airport Safe.

Posted by Alex Tabarrok on September 20, 2005 at 07:10 AM in Economics | Permalink

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