Perfect Losers

Economics, it seems, has very little to tell us about the current economic crisis. Whereas the dominant paradigm in finance – the “efficient market hypothesis” – assumes that everyone has perfect information, and therefore that all prices express the real value of goods for sale, any finance professional will tell you that imperfect information is king.

LONDON – Economics, it seems, has very little to tell us about the current economic crisis. Indeed, no less a figure than former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently confessed that his entire “intellectual edifice” had been “demolished” by recent events.

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