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Hyman Minsky

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Hyman Minsky · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1919, Chicago, Illinois, United States — 1996, Rhinebeck, New York, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Hyman Minsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Hyman Minsky was an American economist whose financial-instability hypothesis argued that stability breeds risk-taking and thus instability, an insight widely revisited after the 2008 crisis, which popularized the term 'Minsky moment.' The son of Menshevik Jewish immigrants, he was of documented Jewish origin. He taught for years at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists