The Theory

  • Colin Read
Part of the Great Minds in Finance book series (GMF)

Abstract

Milton Friedman’s permanent income hypothesis was controversial from the onset. It was not that the theory was an unreasonable or empirically untestable one; rather, it was the offshoot of a strand of research that Simon Kuznets and Friedman had pursued in the mid-1940s.

Keywords

Permanent Income Future Income Wage Rigidity Life Cyclist Transitory Component 
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© Colin Read 2011

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  • Colin Read

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