At the heart of Keynes's theory of financial speculation in the General Theory is the idea that the speculator's expectation is essentially concerned with what the other operators will believe about prices of the Stock Exchange at the next period. This situation is self-referential to the extend that the expectations have to do with the market's own product, i.e. the average opinion of the agents and not with an exogeneous value — such as "the fundamental value". The consequence is that speculation shows special characteristics such as self-fulfilling prophecies, and an indeterminacy of equilibria. Keynes's understanding of these phenomena led him to abandon the traditional view whereby speculation plays a stabilizing role. Consequently he ...
A by-product of the recent financial crisis has been the renewed interest in Keynes's works. Both in...
In this paper we address the subject of Keynes as a speculator. We look first at the primary sources...
International audienceFinancial instability is often either ascribed to rationality itself coping wi...
At the heart of Keynes's theory of financial speculation in the General Theory is the idea that the ...
The analysis of the role of private expectations is relatively recent in economics. Keynes put forwa...
The purpose of this chapter is to make the case for an alternative, Post Keynesian, perspective on a...
honors thesisCollege of Social & Behavioral ScienceEconomicsCihan BilginsoyThere is an abundance of ...
Despite his emphasis on the speculative character of investment decisions, Minsky paid little attent...
According to O’Donnell, “For Keynes, philosophy is the queen of the sciences.” As a matter of fact, ...
The purpose of this chapter is to make the case for an alternative, Post Keynesian, perspective on ...
Keynes -a speculator who traded behalf of himself, his friends and his college- grounded his theore...
Keynes and probability : An insight into « fundamentalist Keynesianism » Jean Arrous The main argum...
In this paper we address the subject of Keynes as a speculator. We look first at the primary sources...
The equilibrium prices in asset markets, as stated by Keynes (1930): “…will be fixed at the point at ...
The purpose of this paper is to portray a mode of inquiry into expectations by three Cambridge autho...
A by-product of the recent financial crisis has been the renewed interest in Keynes's works. Both in...
In this paper we address the subject of Keynes as a speculator. We look first at the primary sources...
International audienceFinancial instability is often either ascribed to rationality itself coping wi...
At the heart of Keynes's theory of financial speculation in the General Theory is the idea that the ...
The analysis of the role of private expectations is relatively recent in economics. Keynes put forwa...
The purpose of this chapter is to make the case for an alternative, Post Keynesian, perspective on a...
honors thesisCollege of Social & Behavioral ScienceEconomicsCihan BilginsoyThere is an abundance of ...
Despite his emphasis on the speculative character of investment decisions, Minsky paid little attent...
According to O’Donnell, “For Keynes, philosophy is the queen of the sciences.” As a matter of fact, ...
The purpose of this chapter is to make the case for an alternative, Post Keynesian, perspective on ...
Keynes -a speculator who traded behalf of himself, his friends and his college- grounded his theore...
Keynes and probability : An insight into « fundamentalist Keynesianism » Jean Arrous The main argum...
In this paper we address the subject of Keynes as a speculator. We look first at the primary sources...
The equilibrium prices in asset markets, as stated by Keynes (1930): “…will be fixed at the point at ...
The purpose of this paper is to portray a mode of inquiry into expectations by three Cambridge autho...
A by-product of the recent financial crisis has been the renewed interest in Keynes's works. Both in...
In this paper we address the subject of Keynes as a speculator. We look first at the primary sources...
International audienceFinancial instability is often either ascribed to rationality itself coping wi...