Boreas Podcast
Mimetic theory takes on everything.
Boreas Podcast
Behavioral Finance
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George Boreas
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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A Girardian angle on the stock market. Yes, the market is irrational, and no, it's not because we have "herd instincts" and other traces of evolutionary survival instincts, but because we are mimetic. Investing is like romance. Girard's mimetic theory does not in any way, shape, or form support any Marxist or neo-Marxist attacks on the Western civilisation.