Re: Bubble definition

[Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

where is Henry's essay on the list? I need this bubble definition..

bye

Xxxx


Charles Brown wrote:

> >From Henry Liu's essay on "Too big to Fail":
>
> "A bubble is formed when there is aggregate overstating of financial
> value.  Its existence saps real growth because profit can then be
> earned more easily from speculation than from increased productivity.
> That was the virus that seriously wounded the Japanese economy and
> kept it depressed for over a decade.  It is now killing the US
> economy."
>
> ((((((((((
>
> CB: Henry, thanks for this definition of "bubble". I have heard the term so 
> much,
>but never had a clear picture of it like this. Of course, the very metaphor of 
>the
>bubble implies that it is fragile to bursting easily. So, I don't know why the
>bourgeois economists would chose that image except that they themselves are 
>implying
>it is a sort of illusion that must burst. I guess a bubble could burst gently.

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Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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Department of Political Science
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