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social science subjects > business and management > business ethics > economics and ethics > law of unintended consequences

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law of unintended consequences  

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  • It is a truism that human actions have unintended consequences. The sociologist Robert K. Merton, who authored a classic statement of the phenomenon in 1936, noted that the subject has been treated by virtually every substantial contributor to the long history of social thought. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Unintended Consequences, Law of]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-G9C800BQ-F

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