Questions, questions
Patrick Marren
(The Futures Strategy Group, Crystal Lake, Illinois, USA.)
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Abstract
Purpose
To discuss the irrelevancy of one particular favorite economic question of current business punditry.
Design/methodology/approach
Opinion column.
Findings
This column examines the question “Are we in a recession?” and points out that the question is: unanswerable until far too late; and almost always of no real use in decisionmaking in the real world.
Originality/value
Hopefully, shows in a humorous way why this obsession with the question of “recession or not” is not useful.
Keywords
Citation
Marren, P. (2008), "Questions, questions", Journal of Business Strategy, Vol. 29 No. 4, pp. 57-59. https://doi.org/10.1108/02756660810886999
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited