"Neither historical experiences nor rational expectations models provide much guidance as to how market participants’ expectations will respond in any particular situation. Each situation has its own distinctive characteristics, and there is ample evidence that many market participants’ expectations do not conform to the strictures of the rational expectations hypothesis, whatever they might imply in these situations, each of which appear to be sui generis."
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Joseph E. Stiglitz, José Antonio Ocampo, Shari Spiegel, Ricardo Ffrench-Davis, and Deepak Nayyar, Stability with Growth. Ch. 6. Open Economy Complications.
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