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angrybear.blogspot.com - 2/16/2009
General Equilibrium Theory by Popular Demand
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Robert Waldmann I'm not kidding. Someone in some thread said that he or she thought it would be great if I could give a simple intuitive explanation of Geanakoplos and Polemarchakis (1985) . Also I would get an interesting perspective on the crisis if I could fly to the moon. I will try after ...

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