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Hicks’s thread (out of the equilibrium labyrinth)

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  • Antonio Bianco

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The work of John Hicks is an unending source of inspiration for many economists and an unsolved dilemma for most historians of economic thought. In these pages, a reconstruction of the continuity principle, the red thread of his evolution as a theorist is proposed. Hicks’s research was inspired by a program of analyzing a process of change from an out-ofequilibrium perspective. Non-measurable risk and the time-to-build being the natural issues at stake in actual economic behavior, he made the transaction costs the kingpin of his technique of thinking. These allowed him to dispense with any essential reference to equilibrium conditions and to revolve around the sequential relationship of learning and planning, which lays at the core of his “Continuation theory”. In fixing its building blocks, he was primed to allow for equilibrium assumptions as far as a vantage point on out-of-equilibrium dynamics was attainable.

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  • Antonio Bianco, 2013. "Hicks’s thread (out of the equilibrium labyrinth)," STOREPapers 7_2013, Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica - StorEP.
    • Handle: RePEc:hpo:wpaper:7_2013
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    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
    • E41 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Demand for Money
    • O21 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Planning Models; Planning Policy

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