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Chapter 6: Modern Economic Theories — Economics 101

Classical economics assumes rational actors in efficient markets. Three modern theories — Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis, New Growth Theory, and Kahneman & Tversky’s Prospect Theory — explain what classical models miss: why stable markets breed crashes, why human capital is the real engine of growth, and why people systematically reject equivalent gains framed as losses.