For What It’s Worth: Historical Financial Bubbles and the Boundaries of Economic Rationality

This essay is a historical and epistemological exploration of a traditionally crazy economic event: the financial bubble. Venturing into two different moments in the history of economic thinking, it investigates financial bubbles as epistemic frontiers, where rationality has reached its limits. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Deringer, William P
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: University of Chicago Press 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116282
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5010-345X