Microfoundations reconsidered the relationship of micro and macroeconomics in historical perspective

Most macroeconomists agree that we live in the age of microfoundations. The recent worldwide financial crisis may have emboldened critics of this microfoundational orthodoxy, but it remains the dominant view that macroeconomic models must go beyond supply and demand functions to the level of individ...

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Otros Autores: Duarte, Pedro Garcia, 1976- (-), Lima, Gilberto Tadeu
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cheltenham (Glos, UK) ; Northampton (Massachusetts) : Edward Elgar cop. 2012
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: privileging micro over macro? A history of conflicting positions / Pedro Garcia Duarte and Gilberto Tadeu Lima
  • Microfoundational programs / Kevin D. Hoover
  • From foundational critique to fictitious players: the curious odyssey of Oskar Morgenstern / Robert Leonard
  • The rise and fall of Walrasian microeconomics: the Keynesian effect / D. Wade Hands
  • The Cowles commission as an anti-Keynesian stronghold 1943-54 / Philip E. Mirowski
  • Microfoundations: a decisive dividing line between Keynesian and new classical macroeconomics? / Michel De Vroey
  • Not going away? Microfoundations in the making of a new consensus in macroeconomics / Pedro Garcia Duarte.