This essay links some of my own work on expectations, learning and bounded rationality to the inspiring ideas of Jean-Michel Grandmont. In particular, my work on consistent expectations and behavioral learning equilibria may be seen as formalizations of JMG's ideas of self-fulfilling mistakes....

The problem of expectations in economic models is reviewed through the intellectual development of the author. Initial efforts at macroeconomic modeling such as Foley-Sidrauski (Foley and Sidrauski 1971) treated expectations as conditioning variables for representative agent stock demands and...

This chapter provides a survey of the recent work on learning in the context of macroeconomics. Learning has several roles. First, it provides a boundedly rational model of how rational expectations can be achieved. Secondly, learning acts as a selection device in models with multiple REE...