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    William Breit

    Sat, 08/27/2011 - 22:31 EDT - Coordination Problem
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    |Peter Boettke|
    While I was in Chicago, I heard the sad news that William Breit had passed away.  Bill was simply a wonderful man and thoughtful scholar of economics.

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