Farmer, J. Doyne; Geanakoplos, John - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2008
The use of equilibrium models in economics springs from the desire for parsimonious models of economic phenomena that … so, extolling the virtues of equilibrium theory; then we present a critique and describe why this approach is inherently …’t be a question of dogma, but should be resolved empirically. There are situations where equilibrium models provide useful …