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N Chandra Mohan: What is risk topography?
The global economic crisis of 2008-09 has triggered much soul searching in the economics profession. How come only a few economists saw it coming? Was it because the profession was blind to the very possibility of catastrophic failures in a market economy, as Nobel laureate Paul Krugman put it? Such thoughts naturally warrant a more relevant theory. Or was it largely a predictive failure? The response