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How market thinking limits impact investing imagination

I keep telling myself that bringing market discipline to social problems is pragmatic but I'm starting to think I just can't imagine solutions that don't center profit.

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The assumption that market mechanisms are universally applicable may constrain the consideration of non-market solutions to market-created problems.

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