impossible trinity

statement in international economics that that it is impossible to have at the same time a fixed foreign exchange rate, absence of capital controls, and an independent monetary policy
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impossible trinity

Summary

impossible trinity is a trilemma[1]. It draws 289 Wikipedia views per month (trilemma category, ranking #2 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • impossible trinity's instance of is recorded as trilemma[3].
  • impossible trinity's instance of is recorded as economic theorem[4].
  • impossible trinity's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04rqbj[5].
  • impossible trinity's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Paradoxes in economics[6].
  • impossible trinity's different from is recorded as trilemma[7].
  • impossible trinity's different from is recorded as Penrose triangle[8].
  • impossible trinity's Quora topic ID is recorded as Impossible-Trinity[9].
  • impossible trinity's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 20493842[10].
  • impossible trinity's schematic is recorded as Impossible trinity diagram.svg[11].
  • impossible trinity's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[12].
  • impossible trinity's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779556663[13].

Why It Matters

impossible trinity draws 289 Wikipedia views per month (trilemma category, ranking #2 of 2).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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