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「資本経済学」序説

An Introduction to Capital Economics

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00229741

https://doi.org/10.15002/00002648

法政大学経済学部学会

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2006-12-25

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Basic Economics nowadays consists of only Micro- and Macro- Economics. However economists should also incorporate in Basic Economics, so to speak, Capital Economics, which is defined in this article as a field including insurances, pensions, futures, and options, all of which have been created by the intelligence of the mankind as very convenient economic devices used to relieve various sorts of precariousness of individuals and corporations. Capital Economics considers transactions of capital or money in a broad sense, not only including those concerning traditional forms of monetary assets such as stocks, bonds, securities, foreign currencies, etc., but also including those concerning such economic items as insurances, pensions, futures, and options. However, although this article maintains necessity of broadening the scope of Basic Economics, a substantial part of this paper is a discussion of concepts and institutions particularly regarding commodity futures markets, which, I would like to argue, should constitute a part of the necessary additional contents to the conventional Basic Economics.

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