And some finance scholars would put far more emphasis than I do on the role that government has played in unbalancing the financial sector with guarantees and bailouts through the years. Still, corporations are subject to economic forces. Everybody was on a sugar high, feeling as if the cavities were never going to come.
Trust evaporated, and not until governments jumped in, late into guarantee that major banks would not fail did the financial markets settle down and begin fitfully to function again. The Labour Movement-Economy The fundamental historical conclusion to be drawn from the economy or the evolution of the economic system - as regards people and societies - is that the possessors of the great accumulation of capital recycle the tightness and the cost of the tightness of the system as an accumulation of their capital and pass on this cost to societies and states.
Before the late s, research on finance at business schools was practical, anecdotal, and not all that influential. The right price will always find a buyer and a seller, and millions of buyers and sellers are far better than a few government officials at determining the right price.
In fact, macroeconomists and finance scholars clearly forgot some important lessons along the way.