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The dismal performance of professional economic forecasters to foresee the financial crisis has raised serious questions as to the credibility of modern economics. Several efforts have been made to account for this failure. The paper offers a tentative answer based on the lessons that may be...
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thinking and theory. In particular, which role do calibration, statistical inference, and structural change play? What is the …
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This paper reviews the recently published doctoral thesis of Hyman P. Minsky, summarizing its main contributions to methodology and microeconomics. These were aspects of economics with which Minsky is not usually associated, but which lie at the foundation of his later work. They include...
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equilibrium theory passed its zenith in microeconomics at some point during the 1980s. This paper does not challenge either of … important relationships between Keynesian economics and Walrasian microeconomic theory that have not generally been recognized … within the literature. The first is that influence ran not only from Walrasian theory to Keynesian, but also from Keynesian …
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This paper reviews the recently published Ph.D. thesis of Hyman P. Minsky, summarizing its main contributions to methodology and microeconomics. These were aspects of economics with which Minsky is not usually associated, but which lie at the foundation of his later work. They include critical...
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of reference used by lawyers, without it, legal theory, in particular in the private law field, will be incomplete while …
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In contrast with the "missing micro-foundations" argument against Keynes’s macro­economics, the paper argues that it is …’s understanding of investors’ behaviour that can be fruitfully extended to consumption theory, in a context in which consumers are …
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In contrast with the "missing micro-foundations" argument against Keynes's macroeconomics, the paper argues that it is …'s understanding of investors' behaviour that can be fruitfully extended to consumption theory, in a context in which consumers are …
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Norms established through the process of socialization, perhaps voluntarily accepted or affirmed, perhaps building on certain genetic predispositions, provide part of the framework within which individuals pursue their self interest. Intellectually defensible microeconomic analysis, in its...
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