"Economists typically assert that cartels dissolve naturally after members cheat or become irrational." Really? Most economists I know acknowledge OPEC still e

"Economists typically assert that cartels dissolve naturally after members cheat or become irrational." Really? Most economists I know acknowledge OPEC still exists and is still a functioning cartel. And they acknowledge that many economists predicted otherwise when it formed and were wrong. I'm pretty sure even those who made such predictions (Milton Friedman from memory for one) have acknowledged they were completely wrong. "As everybody knows..." Was how such falsehoods used to be prefaced in the bad old days in the Soviet Union, so I'm told.