Hyman Minsky
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Hyman Minsky was an American economist best known for his financial instability hypothesis, which explains how periods of economic stability can lead to speculative excess and ultimately financial crises.
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| Hyman Minsky canonical | 4 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hyman Minsky Context triple: [Joseph Schumpeter, influenced, Hyman Minsky]
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A.
Henry Minsky
Henry Minsky is the son of artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky and is known as a software engineer and technologist.
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B.
Franco Modigliani
Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the life-cycle hypothesis of saving and the Modigliani–Miller theorem in corporate finance.
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C.
Donald Markowitz
Donald Markowitz is a songwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award–winning hit "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from the film Dirty Dancing.
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D.
Max Abramovitz
Max Abramovitz was a prominent American architect known for his modernist designs of major cultural and institutional buildings, including notable performance arts centers and university facilities.
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E.
Irving Fisher
Irving Fisher was an influential American economist and statistician known for his pioneering work in interest theory, capital theory, and the development of modern economic and econometric analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hyman Minsky Target entity description: Hyman Minsky was an American economist best known for his financial instability hypothesis, which explains how periods of economic stability can lead to speculative excess and ultimately financial crises.
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A.
Henry Minsky
Henry Minsky is the son of artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky and is known as a software engineer and technologist.
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B.
Franco Modigliani
Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the life-cycle hypothesis of saving and the Modigliani–Miller theorem in corporate finance.
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C.
Donald Markowitz
Donald Markowitz is a songwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award–winning hit "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from the film Dirty Dancing.
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D.
Max Abramovitz
Max Abramovitz was a prominent American architect known for his modernist designs of major cultural and institutional buildings, including notable performance arts centers and university facilities.
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E.
Irving Fisher
Irving Fisher was an influential American economist and statistician known for his pioneering work in interest theory, capital theory, and the development of modern economic and econometric analysis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American economist
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economist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
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Post-Keynesian economics ⓘ
surface form:
post-Keynesian school
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| conceptualized | three types of financing units: hedge, speculative, Ponzi ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource | economic literature on financial crises ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer |
Brown University
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ Washington University in St. Louis ⓘ |
| familyName | Minsky ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economics
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financial economics ⓘ macroeconomics ⓘ monetary economics ⓘ post-Keynesian economics ⓘ |
| givenName | Hyman ⓘ |
| hasEffectOn |
analysis of financial crises
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macroeconomic policy debates ⓘ regulation of financial markets ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hyman Minsky School of Thought
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modern theories of financial crises ⓘ Post-Keynesian economics ⓘ
surface form:
post-Keynesian economics
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| influencedBy |
John Maynard Keynes
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Joseph Schumpeter ⓘ Michał Kalecki ⓘ
surface form:
Michal Kalecki
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Minsky moment
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endogenous financial fragility ⓘ financial instability hypothesis ⓘ hedge, speculative, and Ponzi finance taxonomy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Can "It" Happen Again? Essays on Instability and Finance
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money ⓘ
surface form:
John Maynard Keynes (book)
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
professor of economics
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research director at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College ⓘ |
| proposed | that stability is destabilizing in financial systems ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| theory |
endogenous cycle of leverage and crisis
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financial instability hypothesis ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis
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