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  Question 239: In what respects is, according to Keynes, individual behavior irrational?   
  [104] Walmart: Irrational behavior in the time of troubles.   Irrationality of human behavior can be seen in producers' response to markets facing the problem of falling demand. There are many instances throughout our modern history which show that when demand for a commodity falls, the firm increases output! This not only increases the speed at which the price of that commodity will fall, but also tells us there is no rational effort to control the market, free or not. Between all the producers, prices should be manually increased and inventories shrunk. This may seem like it's advocating monopoly, but a “cartel” or a union over an industry will minimize the need for the inevitable government intervention, especially when it concerns a “sensitive” group. Farmers for decades have been paid by the U.S. government “not to farm”. Ignorance amongst too many small independent producers gives us the simplest view of irrational behavior in the market.   
  Hans: Interesting take on this question. But you may have a point. When labor is cheap, the workers work more in order to make up for it. They cannot remove their commodity from the market even if it is underpriced, because they need to live. Here the irrational behavior is forced on them.   
 
 
 
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