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Does Macroeconomics Need Microeconomic Foundations?

Da Silva, Sergio - 2010

The author argues that it is microeconomics that needs foundations, not macroeconomics. Preferences need to be built on biology, and, in particular, on neuroscience. In contrast, macroeconomics could benefit from rationalizations of aggregate economic phenomena by non-equilibrium statistical physics

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The behavioral economics of John Maynard Keynes

Schettkat, Ronald - 2018

After the publication of Keynes' "General Theory," economics was frequently described as schizophrenia: (neo … or reclassified in the neoclassical synthesis. Keynes' General Theory is truly general. It includes the full … recent results in behavioral economics. Keynes' macroeconomics is the result of his microeconomics. Keynes' theory is a …

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Microfoundations

Denis, Andy - 2017

The paper argues that the microfoundations programme can be understood as an implementation of an underlying methodological principle, methodological individualism, and that it therefore shares a fundamental ambiguity with that principle, viz, whether the macro must be derived from and therefore...

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Redefining Sustainable Investing : A 'Next Economy' Model Approach

Jabusch, Garvin - 2013

evolution of modern portfolio theory are discussed. A new, 'next economy' methodology is proposed to practically apply modern … realities to portfolios in meaningful ways. Existing yet insufficient attempts to modify portfolio theory to address climate and …

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The methodology of modern macroeconomics and the descriptive approach to discounting

Vermeylen, Koen - 2013

Critics of modern macroeconomics often raise concerns about unwarranted welfare conclusions and data mining. This paper illustrates these concerns with a thought experiment, based on the debate in environmental economics about the appropriate discount rate in climate change analyses: I set up an...

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Keynesian theory and the AD-AS framework : a reconsideration

Dutt, Amitava Krishna; Skott, Peter - 2005

Contrary to what has been argued by a number of critics, the AD-AS framework is both internally consistent and in conformity with Keynes s own analysis. Moreover, the eclectic approach to behavioral foundations allows models in this tradition to take into account aggregation problems as well as...

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Aggregate Structural Macroeconomic Modelling : A Reconsideration and Defence

Setterfield, Mark - 2012

-established bodies of social theory. Appeal to these principles reveals that aggregate-level analysis of the type exemplified by ASMM is …

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Asymmetric Price Adjustment : The Missing Link in Keynesian Macroeconomics

Beker, Victor A. - 2017

macroeconomics has to be the point of departure of a realistic reconstruction of macroeconomic theory. Finally, it maintains that …

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Publish and Perish : Creative Destruction and Macroeconomic Theory

Chatelain, Jean-Bernard - 2019

softwares, macroeconomic theory appears not to be a cumulative science so far. Observational equivalence of different models and … growth theory and a second in testing inflation persistence …

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Reassessing Contemporary Macroeconomics on Methodological Grounds A Weberian Approach

Galbács, Peter - 2016

Through this paper I try to join the lively debate around mainstream economics with a view to calling attention to some methodological aspects. It is aimed at outlining an interpretation based on Max Weber's traditional neoclassical methodology that can help us to find the adequate territory of...

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