Category Archives: Information

THE ECONOMIC CRISIS — WHO MATTERS?

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Greg Ransom

NYU finance professor Viral Acharya points to Hayek, Smith, Arrow, & Diamond. Snippet: Governments intervene in banks and markets when crises take place to save the systemic failure costs. This leads to the lack of a private market for generating … Continue reading →

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Hayek vs Arrow & Debreu

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Greg Ransom

A visiting Federal Reserve scholar attempts to explicate the difference between Hayek’s explanatory universe and the Arrow-Debreu explanatory universe using the conceptual language / conceptual straight jacket of . . . Arrow and Debreu: Arrow and Debreu showed that allocations … Continue reading →

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