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Martin Wolf is complimentary about the new book of the Chicago economist and former IMF chief economist Raghuram Rajan in the Financial Times today.
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But wasn’t market discipline the central philosophical principle of Alan “hands-off” Greenspan? Wasn’t the animating theory at the Federal Reserve that letting the banks rip in the credit boom would be fine because none of them would be so stupid as to bankrupt their firms? There was plenty of free market. There just wasn’t any discipline.
I’ve not read Fault Lines – and I’m sure Wolf is right to praise it. The thesis of rising US inequality driving economic instability sounds interesting. But he does quote one argument from Rajan’s book that sounds very suspect to me:
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