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Hyman Minsky

Hyman Minsky

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Hyman

Hyman Minsky is famous economist and economics professor famous for theorizing that markets and economies are victims of their own success

  • theorized that markets and economies are victims of their own success
    • as we make progress, we put more resources toward what we are working on
    • we take greater risks as previous risks prove successful
    • eventually we take on too much risk and suffer huge losses