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OverviewThe recent global financial crisis and role of the stock market led to many questioning how the international financial system operates. The authors of this book offer insights into these issues, contrasting speculative explanations with the efficient markets hypothesis. Full Product DetailsAuthor: J. P. Raines , Charles G. LeathersPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.424kg ISBN: 9781858985640ISBN 10: 1858985641 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 26 January 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents: Preface The New Bull: Will the Market still Fluctuate? 1. Introduction: Economists On (and In) the Stock Market 2. The Stock Market: Structure, Performance and Character 3. Neo-classical Economists on Rational Markets and Speculation 4. Stock Markets in Veblen's Theory of Business Enterprise 5. Keynes on Speculative Stock Markets 6. Galbraith's Model of Speculative Stock Markets 7. Recent Developments in Speculative Markets Theory: Fads, Fashions and 'Rational' Bubbles 8. Current Prospects for Speculative Markets Theory Bibliography IndexReviews`This book provides a welcome and sobering counterpoint to the increasingly popular view that stocks are the safest asset for the long run investor, by demonstrating the challenge to the dominant rational markets paradigm that is posed by behavioral and speculative theories of asset markets.' -- Michael J. Brennan, University of California, Los Angeles, US 'This book provides a welcome and sobering counterpoint to the increasingly popular view that stocks are the safest asset for the long run investor, by demonstrating the challenge to the dominant rational markets paradigm that is posed by behavioral and speculative theories of asset markets.' -- Michael J. Brennan, University of California, Los Angeles, US Author InformationJ. Patrick Raines, Dean and Professor of Economics, Belmont University, US and the late Charles G. Leathers, formerly Professor of Economics, University of Alabama, US Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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