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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. --
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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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straightjacket of optimizing microfoundations, the approach can provide a useful starting point for the analysis of dynamic …
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microfoundations was not raised for the first time in the 1960s or ‘70s, as is sometimes thought, but goes back to the very foundations … of Patinkin, Clower, and Barro and Grossman; and the more recent representative-agent microfoundations, starting with …
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microfoundations' approach considers this property of micro-level interactions to more strongly determine macro-level outcomes compared … 'mechanical' nature. So rather than taking an 'explicit microfoundations' approach, in which individuals are represented as 'white … examine a parsimonious, agent-based macroeconomic model with implicit microfoundations. It generates many of the reported …
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microfoundations" approach considers this property of micro-level interactions to more strongly determine macro-level outcomes compared … "mechanical" nature. So rather than taking an "explicit microfoundations" approach, in which individuals are represented as "white … examine a parsimonious, agent-based macroeconomic model with implicit microfoundations. It generates many of the reported …
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microfoundations' approach considers this property of micro-level interactions to more strongly determine macro-level outcomes compared … 'mechanical' nature. So rather than taking an 'explicit microfoundations' approach, in which individuals are represented as 'white … examine a parsimonious, agent-based macroeconomic model with implicit microfoundations. It generates many of the reported …
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microfoundations' approach assumes this property of micro-level interactions more strongly conditions macro-level outcomes compared to …‘mechanical' nature. So rather than taking an ‘explicit microfoundations' approach, in which individuals are represented as ‘white … examine a parsimonious, agent-based macroeconomic model with implicit microfoundations. It generates many of the reported …
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economics - the so-called microfoundations of macroeconomics - is adequately to ground or replace higher level causal analysis …. The paper will attempt to understand the key issues surrounding the microfoundations of macroeconomics from a perspectival … realist perspective that elucidates the relationship between economists' methodological preference for microfoundations and …
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practice used the reduced microeconomic theory: this is the program of microfoundations for macroeconomics to which the vast …
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