And there are two ideas that Honey talked about which felt very different from the common notions about Microsoft.

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What these notions usually have in common, besides a snappy concept and a persuasive spokesperson, is a weak scientific foundation.

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Yet because economists take these essential ideas for granted, they spend their time arguing about much more contentious notions, developed in one disputed way or another from those common underlying principles.

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