Posts Tagged ‘Economists’
Do economists, as a professional community, behave like sheep -all following the sheepdog? Or like fish, moving altogether in schools? However bizarre these analogies might seem at first sight, they have been applied successfully to finance, where the concept of “herding behaviour” denotes cases in which a majority of traders adopt a shared, or very similar, pathway. It […]
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