Doug wrote:

> They can sometimes, whatever "right" means exactly. I thought the EMH
> merely claimed that market prices promptly reflect all available
> information. If you believe that the markets are at least partly
> driven by mob psychology, then prices often efficiently reflect
> nonsense. But not always.

That's a fair way to put it.  But I don't think that's what Skidelsky
implied.  IMO, he really distorted the story.

My point above is that if you, as most textbooks do, assume that asset
prices *at a given point in time* are a continuous random variable
(this is separate from whether time is assumed to be discrete or
continuous), then, regardless of the shape of its probability
distribution, the probability that X (upper case) will take any
specific value x (lower case) is zero.  That's because probability is
defined as a definite integral (the area under the curve of the
probability density function) over some interval between minus
infinity and plus infinity.  The area of a straight line is zero.

It's an abstract point, but I'd expect a prominent Keynesian economist
to get these facts right.
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