Macroeconomics has developed over seventy years from John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory to the currently fashionable mathematical models that feature efficient markets and rational expectations.
Keynes's presentation of our rates of interest on wheat and housing is set within Austrian business cycle theory, to show that soaring wheat prices and subprime mortgage write-downs are expected,
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