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FT.com - What got us into our financial pickle? Most academics are prisoners of the Efficient Market Hypothesis that assumes man acts rationally and efficiently in economic matters in ways that can be caught in elegant mathematical models. Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, shares this view completely, and Alan Greenspan, his predecessor, when it suits him. In such a convenient world, there can be no bubbles and no crashes. ... |