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that the macroeconomics of the next generation will be
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much more about finance and financial crisis
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than the macroeconomics of the generations that shaped our textbooks;
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that the social gains from preventing and containing financial crises
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are likely to be significant.
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And offer the prospect of achieving the deep-seated goal
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of every Keynesian macroeconomist:
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reducing the average output gap over a long period of time
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and thereby producing more total output.
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That a realistic theory of financial crisis has to be based on something
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other than the idea that the market is efficient.
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And that the notion that bank run-like behavior