C-René DOMINIQUE • Luis Eduardo RIVERA-SOLIS

On Market Economies: How Controllable Constructs Become Complex

Expert Journal of Economics
2(3)
pp. 100-108
The Author(s). 2014

Received: November 9, 2014
Accepted: November 17, 2014
Published: November 24, 2014
Since Lėon Walras neoclassical economists hold an inalterable belief in a unique and stable equilibrium for the economic system which however remains to this day unobservable. Yet that belief is the corner stone of other theories such as the ‘Effi-cient Market Hypothesis’ as well as the philosophy of neo-liberalism, whose out-comes are also shown to be flawed by recent events. A modern market economy is obviously an input/output nonlinear controllable construct. However, this paper examines four such models of increasing complexity, including the affine nonlinear feedback H∞-control, to show that the ‘data requirement’ precludes all attempts at the empirical verification of the existence of a stable equilibrium. If equilibria of complex nonlinear deterministic systems are most likely unstable, multiple or deterministically chaotic depending on their parameter values and uncertainties, then society should impose limits on the state space and focus on endurable patterns thrown-off by such systems.
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JEL Classification C61, C62, C68, C68, D57, D58
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© 2014 The Authors. Published by Sprint Investify. ISSN 2359-7712. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Creative Commons License
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C-René Dominique, Formerly Professor of Applied Economics, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
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C-René DOMINIQUE
Laval University, Quebec, Canada

Luis Eduardo RIVERA-SOLIS
Dowling College, New York, United States
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