Epstein Secrets

lage surrounded on all sides by fire, of afterwards when you discover there isn't a tree standing for twenty miles in any direction. In this light, Cooper's suggestion that central banks should aim for a pattern of small business cycles is eminently sensible. Simply reducing leverage and excess liquidi

mp/econophysics/abstracts.html Clementi F, Gallegati M, 2005. Power law tails in the Italian personal income distribution. Physics A 350, 427-438. Cooper G, 2008. The origin of financial crises: Central banks, credit bubbles and the efficient market fallacy. London: Harriman House. Corbett _I, Jenkinso

butions, and the split of the returns from labour and capital are all long-standing 'anomalies' within economics. Economists such as Schumpeter and Gabaix have noted these regularities [Gabaix 2009]. Why almost all other economists, even heterodox economists such as Gallegati et al, have shown such dis

as 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, has proved of l

nvariants of this type might lay the foundations for an entirely novel type of theory." Schumpeter (1949, p. 155), discussing the Pareto law — via [Gabaix 2009] This paper introduces some mathematical and simulation models and supports these models with various theoretical ideas from economics, mathem

ciers, people such as Pettis, Shiller, Smithers, Cooper, Pepper & Oliver have then made insightful attemp

a particular focus of attention, as its form gives rise to constant shares of returns to labour and capital. (I am somewhat reluctant to criticise Gabaix, as he is one of the few economists who has recognised the importance of power-laws and other 'anomalous' invariants in economics. However his quote