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Amazon's "autobot" recommended a book to an economist titled Quality maintenance: Zero Defects through Equipment Management. The book's description is "Achieve zero-defect product quality by eliminating the root causes of your equipment defects. An easy-to-read case study of TPM, TQC, and JIT at a world class manufacturing plant." Without reading the book the economist knew the advice is wrong. Why would an economist come to that conclusion?

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