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Monday, August 10, 2009

Abramovitz said it....




This is from my first book....Moses Abramovitz said this 11 years ago. It is creepy in its prescience.

Parker: What are some of the lessons of the Great Depression that seem to be forgotten today or have to be continually relearned?

Abramovitz: Well, I'd say beware of a bubble economy. Now, I think it's an immensely healthy thing that this notion that you have to beware of a bubble economy has percolated so broadly, however much people are increasing their commitment to the stock market and to real estate, they all do so uneasily because they realize this doesn't have to last. That's something which was absent toward the end of the 1920s. There, the notion became dominant, a notion that is not absent today, that we're living in a new era in which the old problems of economic fluctuations are behind us, and we have a new type of economic expansion. What they then called "profitless prosperity".

This is me now talking in 2009. If only we would have listened. Don't worry, it is going to happen again. It is just a question of time.
Randall Parker at 12:01 AM

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I am a Professor of Economics at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. My research focuses on macroeconomics and economic history in general and the economics of the Great Depression in particular. I have authored two books, Reflections on the Great Depression and The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era and edited The Seminal Works of the Great Depression. I am currently working on my fourth book Interwar Historical Antecedents of Modern Inflation Targeting and I am the co-editor (with Robert Whaples) of The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History and The Handbook of Modern Economic History. I have also traveled the country giving speeches on the state of the macroeconomy and other economic issues to many trade and business associations. When I am not thinking about the economy I am either chasing ducks, handicapping horses or arranging a fine dining experience. Lastly, the opinions expressed on this blog are mine alone and do not reflect upon East Carolina University in any way or manner, in whole or in part, now and forever more under the canopy of heaven.
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