The Rational Expectations Hypothesis: An Assessment from Popper's Philosophy
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Keywords
Popper; Knowledge; Rational Expectations; Learning; Trial; Error Elimination;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
- B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
- B50 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - General
- D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HPE-2014-02-02 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-PKE-2014-02-02 (Post Keynesian Economics)
- NEP-UPT-2014-02-02 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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