The Minsky moment as the revenge of entropy
Considering macroeconomies as systems subject to stochastic forms of entropic equilibria, we shall consider how deviations driven by positive feedbacks as in a speculative bubble can drive such an economy into an anti-entropic state that can suddenly collapse back into an entropic state, with such a...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Macroeconomic dynamics 2020, Vol.24 (1), p.7-23 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Considering macroeconomies as systems subject to stochastic forms of entropic equilibria, we shall consider how deviations driven by positive feedbacks as in a speculative bubble can drive such an economy into an anti-entropic state that can suddenly collapse back into an entropic state, with such a collapse taking the form of a Minsky moment. This can manifest itself as shifts in the boundary between the portion of the income distribution that is best modeled as Boltzmann–Gibbs and that best modeled as a Paretian power law. |
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ISSN: | 1365-1005 1469-8056 |
DOI: | 10.1017/S1365100518000421 |