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When your life's work turns out to be wrong and harmful

I'm an economist and my models keep showing that the policies I've spent my career advocating actually increase inequality but admitting this would mean my entire professional identity has been built on harmful ideas.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Your own research suggests your life's work may have done harm, and admitting it would undo everything.

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