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									 Rational Expectations 
								
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							Author  | 
							Thomas J. Sargent  | 
						
					
					
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									Category
								
								
							 
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								Schools of Economic Thought 
								
							 
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						Article  | 
					
					
						
							Description  | 
							This article describes the influences between expectations and outcomes, the efficient markets theory of stock prices, the permanent income theory of consumption, tax-smoothing models, expectational error models of the business cycle, and design of macroeconomic policies.  | 
						
					
					
						
							URL  | 
							http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RationalExpectations.html |