Epstein Secrets

d considerable effort to applying the correct mathematics, statistical mechanics, to economics. Although primarily modelled in a static environment, Foley's work is profoundly insightful, and demonstrates very clearly how statistical mechanical approaches are more powerful than utility based approache

nomists. These ideas include recent research in market microstructure, liquidity, post-Keynesian pricing theory as well as the work of Foley, Keen, Smithers, Shiller, Cooper, Pettis, Pepper & Oliver, Mehrling, Lyons and others. Neoclassical economics, while forming an intellectually beautiful framework,

ure papers and vice-versa. The main reason for adopting classical economics was almost accidental. I had previously rejected the dabblings of both Foley and Wright into Marxian economics as misguided foolishness. I was wrong, they were right. My first reason for rejecting Marxian economics was becau

classical economics becomes a much more powerful theoretical method than neoclassicism. The economic historians such as Reinhart & Rogoff, Shiller, Smithers, Harrison, Napier and Bernholz have the advantage of the long sweep of history to prevent them from accepting high- faluting theory that disagrees w

ng entropic systems should also remove many of the theoretical problems associated with imaginary Walrasian auctioneers and other such difficulties. Foley has made very significant inroads into this way of carrying out pricing [Foley 1996a, 1996b, 1999, 2002]. 214 EFTA00625342 All of the above for

model. This then becomes much more significant at the level of the whole stockmarket, especially in the light of the extensive work by Shiller and Smithers regarding the long-term valuation of stock markets. This work is very well summed up in 'Wall Street Revalued' [Smithers 2009]. The central thesis