Biographical note: DuffieDarrell: Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. His books include "How Big Banks Fail and What to Do about It" and "Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory" (both Princeton).

Main description: In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue, is that both the rational and behavioral theories of the market rest...

Der westdeutsche Wiederaufbau nach 1945 erforderte umfangreiche gesamtwirtschaftliche Investitionen. Anfang der Fünfzigerjahre war die große Diskrepanz zwischen Kapitalnachfrage und -angebot das wirtschaftliche Kernproblem der jungen Bundesrepublik, bei dem sich der "funktionsunfähige"...