“Limited liability should not be sacrosanct. Like property rights—including intellectual property—it is a creation of man, to provide appropriate incentives; when that artifice fails to fulfill its social function, it needs to be modified.”

idem, p. 207
Making globalization work (2006)

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American economist and professor, born 1943. 1943

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