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
1. Verfasser: Rosser, John Barkley
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Sprache:eng
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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.
ISSN:1365-1005
1469-8056
DOI:10.1017/S1365100518000421