This paper is a contribution to the forthcoming Edward Elgar Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis volume edited by Gilbert Faccarello and Heinz Kurz. Its aim is to introduce the reader to the main episodes that have marked the course of modern macroeconomics: its emergence after the...

Dans ce numéro de Regards économiques, nous retraçons, l’histoire de la macroéconomie, de son émergence dans la foulée de la Théorie Générale de Keynes à son état présent et mettons en avant la “révolution scientifique” qui s’y est manifestée dans les années 1980.

According to Klein, Keynes’s General Theory was crying out for empirical application. He set himself the task of implementing this extension. Our paper documents the different stages of his endeavor, focusing on his The Keynesian Revolution book, Journal of Political Economy article on...