"In this paper I argue that the current core of macroeconomics-by which I mainly mean the so-called dynamic stochastic general equilibrium approach-has become so mesmerized with its own internal logic that it has begun to confuse the precision it has achieved about its own world with the...

This paper argues that the DSGE approach to macroeconometrics is the dominant approach because it meets the institutional needs of the replicator dynamics of the profession, not because it is necessarily the best way to do macroeconometrics. It further argues that this "DSGE theory-first"...

In this paper, the authors explore a dynamical version of the Aoki and Yoshikawa model (AYM) for an economy driven by demand. They show that when an appropriate Markovian dynamics is taken into account, the AYM has different equilibrium distributions depending on the form of transition...