Saturday, 15 October 2011

Class 17: Unintended consequences

Today, Mr Rizzo introduces the law of unintended consequences and its application in economics. Law of unintended consequences is basically the unintended result coming out from the choices that we made. For instance, a well-intended law that is passed down to protect the disabled might lead to the rise of the cost of disabled people (unintended consequences). Therefore we have to be careful with the regulation.

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