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Nonlinear Dynamics of Financial Crises
How to Predict Discontinuous Decisions
1st Edition - March 28, 2015
Author: Ionut Purica
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:9780128032756
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eBook ISBN:9780128032763
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When just a handful of economists predicted the 2008 financial crisis, people should wonder how so many well educated people with enormous datasets and computing power can be so wrong. In this short book Ionut Purica joins a growing number of economists who explore the failings of mainstream economics and propose solutions developed in other disciplines, such as sociology and evolutionary biology. While it might be premature to call for a revolution, Dr. Purica echoes John Maynard Keynes in believing that economic ideas are "dangerous for good or evil." In recent years evil seems to have had the upper hand. "Nonlinear Dynamics of Financial Crises" points to their ability to do good.
Makes complex economics ideas accessible by carefully explaining technical terms and minimizing mathematics and equations
Delivers easily-understood perspectives about the global economy by constructing broad assumptions and conclusions in the face of its infinitely complexity
Challenges received economic ideas by focusing on human behavior and the roles it plays in easily-observable recent trends and events
Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals working in all areas of finance
Dedication
Brief Description of the Book
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
References
Chapter 2. Evolution of Financial Crises
2.1 Definitions and Common Patterns of the Crisis
2.2 The Crisis Cycle Bird’s-Eye Description
2.3 Evolutionary Economics and Complex Systems Approaches to Describing Crisis Cycles
2.4 Evolutionary Economics
References
Chapter 3. The Sociocultural Niche
3.1 Creativity
3.2 Evidences and Memes
3.3 Creativity as a Memes Mutation
3.4 Logistic Penetration of Memes
References
Chapter 4. Occupy the Financial Niche—Saturation and Crisis
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Social Reality and Collective Behavior
4.3 Dynamics of Memes
4.4 Description of the Model
4.5 Criteria for Financial Development Strategies
References
Chapter 5. Monitoring Issues and Measuring the Change
5.1 Predict the Phase Change
5.2 Crossing the Limit in the Decision Space
5.3 Cases of Decision Trajectory Evolution
5.4 Freedom Versus Deregulation—Historical Considerations
5.5 Procedure for Predicting Crisis Cycles
References
Chapter 6. Nonlinear Effects in Market Penetration—Deterministic Chaos
6.1 Quadratic Phase Diagrams in Economics
6.2 Penetration of a Financial Instrument
References
Chapter 7. Final Thoughts on Crises and Adaptability
7.1 Do We Want to Eliminate the Crises?
References
Appendix 1. Evolution of Models in Relation to Crisis Cycles
References
Appendix 2. Logistic Map
References
Bibliography
No. of pages: 124
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: March 28, 2015
Imprint: Academic Press
Paperback ISBN: 9780128032756
eBook ISBN: 9780128032763
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Ionut Purica
Prof.Ionut Purica is a corresponding member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists (AOSR), and a senior researcher in econophysics. He had worked in the World Bank, ENEA Rome and ICTP Trieste, Italy and RENEL Romania developing nonlinear models for energy systems development and economic decisions. He holds two PhDs: one in energy systems and the other in economics.
Affiliations and expertise
National Institute for Economic Forecasting, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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