Those with some education in finance or economics were less vulnerable.

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Surprisingly, the idea that short term profit maximization was the only corporate goal only really translated to the boardroom for the economics classroom in the 1980s and onwards with the rise of business school education.

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The opinions of students, regularly used at institutions of higher education, have been shown to correlate with overall student performance at the middle-school level, said Thomas Kane, a professor of education and economics at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who has studied the issue.

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