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Does Macroeconomics Need Microeconomic Foundations?
Da Silva, Sergio - 2009
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...
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Does Macroeconomics Need Microeconomic Foundations?
Da Silva, Sergio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-23, pp. 1-11
I argue 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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298641
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Disentangling motivational and experiential aspects of "Utility": A neuroeconomics perspective
Witt, Ulrich; Binder, Martin - 2011
-dimensional decision outcomes, economic theory assumes a uni-dimensional utility measure. This paper reviews evidence from behavioral and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286755
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History of economic thought's place in macroeconomics revisited
Laidler, David E. W. - 2023
The History of Economics Society was founded at a time when the History of Economic Thought was being expelled from the Economics post-graduate curriculum in many universities, and was one of the key institutions around which the sub-discipline successfully re-organised itself and continued to...
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Implicit Microfoundations for Macroeconomics
Wright, Ian - 2008
A large market economy has a huge number of degrees of freedom with weak microlevel coordination. The 'implicit microfoundations' approach assumes this property of micro-level interactions more strongly conditions macro-level outcomes compared to the precise details of individual choice...
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Implicit Microfoundations for Macroeconomics
Wright, Ian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-19, pp. 1-27
A large market economy has a huge number of degrees of freedom with weak microlevel coordination. The 'implicit microfoundations' approach considers this property of micro-level interactions to more strongly determine macro-level outcomes compared to the precise details of individual choice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298637
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Commentary on Edmund Rolls: "Emotion and reason in human decision-making"
Solms, Mark - 2019
In his paper Emotion and reasoning in human decision-making (Economics Discussion Papers, No 2019-8) Edmund Rolls points out that multiple and independent types of reinforcement exist in the human brain, and that they cannot be reduced to a common currency. The present commentary introduces...
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Emotion and reasoning in human decision-making
Rolls, Edmund T. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (2019) 2019-39, pp. 1-31
Two systems in the brain that are involved in emotional and economic decision-making are described. The first is an evolutionarily old emotion-based system that operates on rewards defined by the genes such as food, warmth, social reputation, and having children. Such decisions are often based...
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Emotion and reasoning in human decision-making
Rolls, Edmund T. - 2019
Two systems in the brain that are involved in emotional and economic decision-making are described. The first is an evolutionarily old emotion-based system that operates on rewards defined by the genes such as food, warmth, social reputation, and having children. Such decisions are often based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964242
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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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