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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463147903321

Autore

Falahati Kazem

Titolo

New paradigms in financial economics : how would Keynes reconstruct economics? / / Kazem Falahati

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-09718-1

1-283-86331-6

1-136-22154-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Routledge international studies in money and banking ; ; 71

Disciplina

330.15/6

Soggetti

Finance

Investments

Finance - Mathematical models

Investments - Mathematical models

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- Irrational foundations of "rational" behaviour in the standard paradigm -- Contradictions of the Marxian paradigm -- The new paradigm -- Resolution of theoretical and experimental puzzles -- Resolution of empirical puzzles in corporate finance -- Resolution of puzzles in macroeconomics -- Economic role of the state -- The recent global financial crisis -- Conclusion, policy and research recommendations -- Appendices: a critique of existing literature.

Sommario/riassunto

The recent global financial crisis has made the inadequacies of the scientific state of economics and finance glaringly obvious, as these disciplines gave the false reassurance that such a self-destructive phenomenon could not happen. A similar phenomenon arose in the 1930's, when the pitfalls of the dominant economic theories were sharply exposed. Since then, the same analytical framework, in its new versions, has revealed a huge number of other empirical and experimental failures. On the other hand, the founders of the currently dominant theories in economics and finance (i.