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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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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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Paul Samuelson's ways to macroeconomic dynamics

Boianovsky, Mauro - 2019

Samuelson kept optimization-based problems separated from macroeconomic dynamics in his Foundations, where dynamics were defined in terms of difference and differential equations. Despite some criticism of his "correspondence principle" of stability analysis by D.F. Gordon, D. Patinkin 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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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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