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We saw that Irving Fisher of Yale reinvented general
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equilibrium in order to study finance,
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and we saw just by reinterpreting the variables of
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general equilibrium we could start to say a lot of things
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about finance, and in particular we had the
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idea of free markets, an argument in favor of free markets.
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We had the idea of arbitrage and no arbitrage so you could
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deduce a lot of prices without solving for the whole
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equilibrium just by knowing what other prices are.
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And we also learned that the price of many things is going to
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have to do with the utility and marginal utilities of people,
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and that's going to have a lot to do with what their impatience