Posted by baseball55 on October 16, 2013, at 18:45:36
In reply to Re: gov't shutdown.... :(, posted by sigismund on October 16, 2013, at 18:17:03
> I have read that the efficient markets hypothesis is a species of utopianism derived, at some distance, from a type of Christianity. I may be simplifying a little :)
It is a kind of utopianism -- free markets always work. I don't know about the relation to christianity.
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> I would really like to read "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", simply because it is referenced so often in the history books and would be well written. Cheap from amazon too.
It's a short book. Argued that the Versailles Treaty would ruin Germany. Very prescient.
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