Thursday, October 17, 2013

Lars Syll — Efficient markets and rational expectations – two ideas that aren’t true



EMH and REH assume away the reason for Keynesian economics.

Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmö University
quoting John Cassidy

1 comment:

Ralph Musgrave said...

Never mind. Efficient markets and rational expectations have kept hundreds of academic economists employed in ivory towers turning out thousands of papers.

The fact that the empirical evidence is that households don't behave in a rational way never greatly interested them. Or as Joseph Stiglitz put it: “Ricardian equivalence is taught in every graduate school in the country. It is also sheer nonsense.”