The virtues and vices of equilibrium and the future of financial economics

The use of equilibrium models in economics springs from the desire for parsimonious models of economic phenomena that take human reasoning into account. This approach has been the cornerstone of modern economic theory. We explain why this is so, extolling the virtues of equilibrium theory; then we p...

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Main Authors: Farmer, J, Geanakoplos, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008