It seems useful to identify several levels of economic bubbles:
Personal bubble: The economic bubble formed by an individual or a family created and maintained by self-interested behavior (See “Defining terms in Bubbleconomics“)
Microbubble: An economic bubble formed on a relatively small level, such as in a limited geographic location or niche market
Macrobubble: A large bubble that plays a major economic role in a large economy, globally, or in a major industry or industries
The Big Bubble: The theoretic global bubble consisting of the entire world economy based on unsustainable growth (See “Defining terms in Bubbleconomics“)
AB — 16 March 2009
Filed under: The Bubbleconomics Project Tagged: | economic bubbles
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