{"title":"Modern Financial Market Theory – A Critique Based on the Logic of Human Action","authors":"Thorsten Polleit","doi":"10.3790/ccm.54.3.447","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n The modern financial market theory (MFMT) – based on the efficient market hypothesis, rational expectation theory, and modern portfolio theory – has become the standard approach in financial market economics. In this article, the MFMT will be critically reviewed using the logic of human action (or: praxeology) as an epistemological metatheory. It will be shown that the MFMT exhibits (praxeo-)logical deficiencies so that it cannot provide investors with well-founded decision-making support in real-world financial markets.","PeriodicalId":36966,"journal":{"name":"Credit and Capital Markets","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Credit and Capital Markets","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.54.3.447","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The modern financial market theory (MFMT) – based on the efficient market hypothesis, rational expectation theory, and modern portfolio theory – has become the standard approach in financial market economics. In this article, the MFMT will be critically reviewed using the logic of human action (or: praxeology) as an epistemological metatheory. It will be shown that the MFMT exhibits (praxeo-)logical deficiencies so that it cannot provide investors with well-founded decision-making support in real-world financial markets.