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