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Economists Discover Quasi-Equlibriated Economic Sub-Particle
The problem economists have explaining the financial crash
By Steve Keen
CERN has just announced the discovery of a new particle, called the “FERIR”.
This is not a fundamental particle of matter like the Higgs Boson, but an invention of economists. CERN in this instance stands not for the famous particle accelerator straddling the French and Swiss borders, but for an economic research lab at MIT—whose initials are coincidentally the same as those of its far more famous cousin.
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Its existence was first mooted some 30 months ago by Professor Larry Summers at the 2013 IMF Research Conference. The existence of the FERIR was confirmed just this week by CERN’s particle equilibrator, the DSGEin.
...“We have shown that the FERIRequilibrates with and maintains the ZLB,” Professor Krugman explained. “So Larry’s discovery is really, really important”.
Now that economists have explained the persistence of the ZLB, they can now turn their attention to understanding its perverse effects. The real problem of the ZLB for economists has been that it inverts the status and behaviour of all other sub-economic particles. In particular:
http://evonomics.com/economists-discover-quasi-equlibriated-economic-sub-particle/
Economists Discover Quasi-Equlibriated Economic Sub-Particle
The problem economists have explaining the financial crash
By Steve Keen
CERN has just announced the discovery of a new particle, called the “FERIR”.
This is not a fundamental particle of matter like the Higgs Boson, but an invention of economists. CERN in this instance stands not for the famous particle accelerator straddling the French and Swiss borders, but for an economic research lab at MIT—whose initials are coincidentally the same as those of its far more famous cousin.
...
Its existence was first mooted some 30 months ago by Professor Larry Summers at the 2013 IMF Research Conference. The existence of the FERIR was confirmed just this week by CERN’s particle equilibrator, the DSGEin.
...“We have shown that the FERIRequilibrates with and maintains the ZLB,” Professor Krugman explained. “So Larry’s discovery is really, really important”.
Now that economists have explained the persistence of the ZLB, they can now turn their attention to understanding its perverse effects. The real problem of the ZLB for economists has been that it inverts the status and behaviour of all other sub-economic particles. In particular:
- Growth, which was high, is now low;
- Inflation, which was bad & everywhere, is now good & nowhere;
- CBs (“Central Banks”) which prevent inflation, now try to cause it; and
- HMDs (“Helicopter Money Drops”) which were mad, are now sane
http://evonomics.com/economists-discover-quasi-equlibriated-economic-sub-particle/
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