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law of unintended consequences

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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