This paper explores the interaction between the Great recession triggered by the US subprime mortgages crisis and the twin crisis of macroeconomics. We argue that a major determinant of the subprime crisis and its dire consequences has been an approach to economics that is unable to deal with...

The History of Economics Society was founded at a time when the History of Economic Thought was being expelled from the Economics post-graduate curriculum in many universities, and was one of the key institutions around which the sub-discipline successfully re-organised itself and continued to...

The History of Economics Society was founded at a time when the History of Economic Thought was being expelled from the Economics post-graduate curriculum in many universities, and was one of the key institutions around which the sub-discipline successfully re-organised itself and continued to...

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...

The aim of this paper is to emphasize several methodological novelties, introduced in the economic analysis by the British economist John Maynard Keynes. This article presents some of the most important concepts that Keynes used, in order to create a new economic theory, capable to offer...

In the real world, prices do not behave symmetrically. Usually, nominal wages and prices are sticky downward but a lot more flexible upward; the latter is illustrated by inflationary and hyperinflationary processes. However, most mainstream economics is built upon the assumption that nominal...

We illustrate how the Lucas Critique was called into question by Keynesian macroeconomists during the 1970s and 1980s. Our claim is that Keynesians' reactions were carried out from a pragmatic approach, which addressed the empirical and practical relevance of the Critique. Keynesians rejected...

Unlike standard accounts, recent research in the history of macroeconomics has given increasing attention to the Old Keynesians’ criticisms of the New Classical Economics. In this paper, I address the case of Edmond Malinvaud, who began opposing the latter from the early 1980s and did so...