[eng] The Evolution of Macroeconomic Theory and Modelling Along the Last Fifty Years. An outline of the evolution from the birth up to present days of the macroeconomics is laid out, its emergence during the thirties, then the period of the domination of the Keynesian macroeconomics of the years...

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 Theorywas 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, his Journal of Political Economy article on...