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The financial and economic crisis brings to a reconsideration of macroeconomics: as it happened in the past, after the … subsequent oil crisis. A brief critical survey of mainstream macroeconomics (the neoclassical synthesis and its variants, and its …
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The Financial Crisis of 2008, and the Great Recession in its wake, have shaken up macroeconomics. The paradigm of the …, fails to capture key elements of the recent crisis. This paper reviews the current reappraisal of the paradigm in the light … of the history of macroeconomic thought. Twice in the past 80 years, a major macroeconomic crisis led to the breakthrough …
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This paper examines Robert E. Lucas's views on the relationship of macroeconomics to real world economic phenomena, and on Keynes's place in its history, suggesting that these stem from a particular and debatable understanding of how the subdiscipline has evolved. It considers some implications...
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This paper examines Robert E. Lucas's views on the relationship of macroeconomics to real world economic phenomena, and on Keynes's place in its history, suggesting that these stem from a particular and debatable understanding of how the subdiscipline has evolved. It considers some implications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039609
The financial and economic crisis brings to a reconsideration of macroeconomics: as it happened in the past, after the … subsequent oil crisis. A brief critical survey of mainstream macroeconomics (the neoclassical synthesis and its variants, and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113966
The financial and economic crisis brings to a reconsideration of macroeconomics: as it happened in the past, after the … subsequent oil crisis. A brief critical survey of mainstream macroeconomics (the neoclassical synthesis and its variants, and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120079
This paper discusses the treatment of growth as a path-dependent process in Post-Keynesian macrodynamics. A synthetic Post-Keynesian growth model is used to demonstrate the ways in which growth can be described as path dependent in the Post-Keynesian tradition. Recent developments in...
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This essay reviews the development of neoclassical growth theory, a unified theory of aggregate economic phenomena that was first used to study business cycles and aggregate labor supply. Subsequently, the theory has been used to understand asset pricing, growth miracles and disasters, monetary...
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The purpose of this paper is to determine whether a neoclassical model of macroeconomic growth with endogenous savings and labor augmenting technical change can account for Kaldor's stylized facts. An empirical investigation is undertaken to determine whether the results obtained correctly...
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Since the beginning of the fall of monetarism in the mid-1980s, mainstream macroeconomics has incorporated many of the principles of post-Keynesian endogenous money theory. This paper argues that the most important critical component of post-Keynesian monetary theory today is its rejection of...
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