Knowledge Information And Expectations In Modern Macroeconomics

Author : Philippe Aghion,Roman Frydman,Joseph E. Stiglitz,Michael Woodford
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691223933

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Knowledge, Information, and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics by Philippe Aghion,Roman Frydman,Joseph E. Stiglitz,Michael Woodford Pdf

Macroeconomics would not be what it is today without Edmund Phelps. This book assembles the field's leading figures to highlight the continuing influence of his ideas from the past four decades. Addressing the most important current debates in macroeconomic theory, it focuses on the rates at which new technologies arise and information about markets is dispersed, information imperfections, and the heterogeneity of beliefs as determinants of an economy's performance. The contributions, which represent a breadth of contemporary theoretical approaches, cover topics including the real effects of monetary disturbances, difficulties in expectations formation, structural factors in unemployment, and sources of technical progress. Based on an October 2001 conference honoring Phelps, this incomparable volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account in years of the present state of macroeconomics while also pointing to its future. The fifteen chapters are by the editors and by Daron Acemoglu, Jess Benhabib, Guillermo A. Calvo, Oya Celasun, Michael D. Goldberg, Bruce Greenwald, James J. Heckman, Bart Hobijn, Peter Howitt, Hehui Jin, Charles I. Jones, Michael Kumhof, Mordecai Kurz, David Laibson, Lars Ljungqvist, N. Gregory Mankiw, Dale T. Mortensen, Maurizio Motolese, Stephen Nickell, Luca Nunziata, Wolfgang Ochel, Christopher A. Pissarides, Glenda Quintini, Ricardo Reis, Andrea Repetto, Thomas J. Sargent, Jeremy Tobacman, and Gianluca Violante. Commenting are Olivier J. Blanchard, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Mark Gertler, Robert E. Hall, Robert E. Lucas, Jr., David H. Papell, Robert A. Pollak, Robert M. Solow, Nancy L. Stokey, and Lars E. O. Svensson. Also included are reflections by Phelps, a preface by Paul A. Samuelson, and the editors' introduction.

Author : Edmund S. Phelps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691094845

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Knowledge, Information, and Expectations in Modern Macroeconomics by Edmund S. Phelps Pdf

Assembling some of the leading figures in the field of macroeconomics, this text highlights the continuing influence of the ideas of Edmund Phelps since the early 1960s. The contributions address many of the most important current areas of macroeconomic research in 2003.

Author : Roman Frydman,Edmund S. Phelps
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691155234

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Rethinking Expectations by Roman Frydman,Edmund S. Phelps Pdf

This book originated from a 2010 conference marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the landmark "Phelps volume," Microeconomic Foundations of Employment and Inflation Theory, a book that is often credited with pioneering the currently dominant approach to macroeconomic analysis. However, in their provocative introductory essay, Roman Frydman and Edmund Phelps argue that the vast majority of macroeconomic and finance models developed over the last four decades derailed, rather than built on, the Phelps volume's "microfoundations" approach. Whereas the contributors to the 1970 volume recognized the fundamental importance of according market participants' expectations an autonomous role, contemporary models rely on the rational expectations hypothesis (REH), which rules out such a role by design. The financial crisis that began in 2007, preceded by a spectacular boom and bust in asset prices that REH models implied could never happen, has spurred a quest for fresh approaches to macroeconomic analysis. While the alternatives to REH presented in Rethinking Expectations differ from the approach taken in the original Phelps volume, they are notable for returning to its major theme: understanding aggregate outcomes requires according expectations an autonomous role. In the introductory essay, Frydman and Phelps interpret the various efforts to reconstruct the field--some of which promise to chart its direction for decades to come. The contributors include Philippe Aghion, Sheila Dow, George W. Evans, Roger E. A. Farmer, Roman Frydman, Michael D. Goldberg, Roger Guesnerie, Seppo Honkapohja, Katarina Juselius, Enisse Kharroubi, Blake LeBaron, Edmund S. Phelps, John B. Taylor, Michael Woodford, and Gylfi Zoega.

Author : Brian Snowdon,Howard R. Vane
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845424671

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Modern Macroeconomics by Brian Snowdon,Howard R. Vane Pdf

Snowdon and Vane s book is extremely welcome. Indeed the authors examine, compare, and evaluate the evolution of the major rival stories comprising contemporary macroeconomic thought, but they also trace the development and interaction of key events and ideas as they occurred in the last century. Interviews with leading economists, one or two at the end of each chapter, also greatly help to shed light on this complexity. . . In sum, this is book which is very difficult to put down. Alessio Moneta, Journal of the History of Economic Thought It is not difficult to understand why this volume commands high praise from macroeconomic theorists, practitioners and teachers. It contains many interesting features that make it an excellent companion for both students and teachers of tertiary level macroeconomics. . . The authors present the material in a way that conveys to readers that macroeconomics is a living science , continually developing and still open to debate, controversy and competing policy prescriptions. In this respect it is a book that ought to be required reading for all teachers of the subject. It is also a valuable source of background reading for professional economists involved with economic policy making. Economic Outlook and Business Review . . . a wonderful history of macroeconomic thought from Keynes to the present, with an outstanding bibliography. It should be useful to undergraduates and graduate students as well as professional economists. Highly recommended. Steven Pressman, Choice Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane are well-known for their astute understanding of the main macroeconomic schools of thought and their skilled use of interviews with major figures. Here, they deploy a depth of scholarship in explaining the different schools and their key points of departure from one another. This book will be particularly useful to students looking for a clear, non-technical explanation of the main approaches to macroeconomics. Patrick Minford, Cardiff University, UK There are two steps to learning macroeconomics. First, to see it as it is today. Second, to understand how it got there: to understand the right and the wrong turns, the hypotheses that proved false, the insights that proved true, and the interaction of events and ideas. Only then, does one truly understand macroeconomics. This book is about step two. It does a marvellous job of it. The presentation is transparent, the interviews fascinating. You will enjoy, and you will learn. Olivier Blanchard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US In 40 years of teaching macroeconomics, there has been just one textbook that I have assigned year after year after year, namely, A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics by Snowdon, Vane and Wynarczyk. That altogether admirable book made clear to students what were, and are, the main intellectual issues in macroeconomics and did so with just enough formal modeling to avoid distortion by over-simplification. That book is now ten years old and the debate in macro has moved on. So there is good reason to welcome Snowdon and Vane back with this superb updated version. Axel Leijonhufvud, University of Trento, Italy This outstanding book avoids the narrow scope of most textbooks and provides an excellent guide to an unusually broad range of ideas. Thomas Mayer, University of California, Davis, US More than a decade after the publication of the critically acclaimed A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics, Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane have produced a worthy successor in the form of Modern Macroeconomics. Thoroughly extended, revised and updated, it will become the indispensable text for students and teachers of macroeconomics in the new millennium. The authors skilfully trace the origins, development and current state of modern macroeconomics from an historical perspective. They do so by thoroughly appraising the central tenets underlying the main competing schools of macroeconomic thought as well as their diverse policy imp

Author : Roman Frydman,Michael D. Goldberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691121605

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Imperfect Knowledge Economics by Roman Frydman,Michael D. Goldberg Pdf

Posing a major challenge to economic orthodoxy, Imperfect Knowledge Economics asserts that exact models of purposeful human behavior are beyond the reach of economic analysis. Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue that the longstanding empirical failures of conventional economic models stem from their futile efforts to make exact predictions about the consequences of rational, self-interested behavior. Such predictions, based on mechanistic models of human behavior, disregard the importance of individual creativity and unforeseeable sociopolitical change. Scientific though these explanations may appear, they usually fail to predict how markets behave. And, the authors contend, recent behavioral models of the market are no less mechanistic than their conventional counterparts: they aim to generate exact predictions of "irrational" human behavior. Frydman and Goldberg offer a long-overdue response to the shortcomings of conventional economic models. Drawing attention to the inherent limits of economists' knowledge, they introduce a new approach to economic analysis: Imperfect Knowledge Economics (IKE). IKE rejects exact quantitative predictions of individual decisions and market outcomes in favor of mathematical models that generate only qualitative predictions of economic change. Using the foreign exchange market as a testing ground for IKE, this book sheds new light on exchange-rate and risk-premium movements, which have confounded conventional models for decades. Offering a fresh way to think about markets and representing a potential turning point in economics, Imperfect Knowledge Economics will be essential reading for economists, policymakers, and professional investors.

Author : Brian Snowdon,Howard R. Vane,Roger Backhouse
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781008492

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Reflections on the Development of Modern Macroeconomics by Brian Snowdon,Howard R. Vane,Roger Backhouse Pdf

This is a collection of essays on the development of modern macroeconomics. It reflects the profound and controversial changes that the subject has undergone in the period 1974 to 1999. Each of the eight essays focuses on an important issue relating to those changes.

Author : Brian Snowdon,Howard R. Vane,Peter Wynarczyk
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Comparative economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009708046

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A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics by Brian Snowdon,Howard R. Vane,Peter Wynarczyk Pdf

This work provides up-to-date discussions of recent developments in modern macroeconomics; it also features interviews with leading economists that aim to shed new light on the major intellectual and policy issues of the 1990s.

Author : Brian Snowdon,Howard Vane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134729081

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A Macroeconomics Reader by Brian Snowdon,Howard Vane Pdf

A Macroeconomics Reader brings together a collection of key readings in modern macroeconomics. Each article has been carefully chosen to provide the reader with accessible, non-technical, and reflective papers which critically assess important areas and current controversies within modern macroeconomics. The book is divided into six parts, each with a separate introduction highlighting the relevance of the ensuing articles. The areas covered include: Keynes's General Theory, Keynesian economics and the Keynesian revolution; monetarism; rational expectations and new classical macroeconomics; real business cycle approaches: New Keynesian economics: economic growth. This book will be an essential guide for students and lecturers in the field of macroeconomics as well as those interested in the history of economic thought.

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PKEY:6610000518999

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New Keynesian Economics by Fouad Sabry Pdf

What is New Keynesian Economics For the purpose of providing Keynesian economics with microeconomic underpinnings, the New Keynesian economics school of macroeconomics is an attempt to give those foundations. New classical macroeconomics advocates were the ones who initially voiced their opposition to Keynesian macroeconomics, which led to the development of this theory. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: New Keynesian economics Chapter 2: Macroeconomics Chapter 3: Stagflation Chapter 4: Phillips curve Chapter 5: Nominal rigidity Chapter 6: Ricardo Reis Chapter 7: John B. Taylor Chapter 8: Policy-ineffectiveness proposition Chapter 9: Menu cost Chapter 10: Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium Chapter 11: Neoclassical synthesis Chapter 12: New classical macroeconomics Chapter 13: AD-AS model Chapter 14: David Romer Chapter 15: History of macroeconomic thought Chapter 16: Real rigidity Chapter 17: New neoclassical synthesis Chapter 18: Divine coincidence Chapter 19: Taylor contract (economics) Chapter 20: Calvo (staggered) contracts Chapter 21: Jón Steinsson (II) Answering the public top questions about new keynesian economics. (III) Real world examples for the usage of new keynesian economics in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of New Keynesian Economics.

Author : Roman Frydman,Michael D. Goldberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400838189

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Beyond Mechanical Markets by Roman Frydman,Michael D. Goldberg Pdf

A powerful challenge to contemporary economics and a new agenda for global finance In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael Goldberg argue, is that both the rational and behavioral theories of the market rest on the same fatal assumption—that markets act mechanically and economic change is fully predictable. In Beyond Mechanical Markets, Frydman and Goldberg show how the failure to abandon this assumption hinders our understanding of how markets work, why price swings help allocate capital to worthy companies, and what role government can and can't play. The financial crisis, Frydman and Goldberg argue, was made more likely, if not inevitable, by contemporary economic theory, yet its core tenets remain unchanged today. In response, the authors show how imperfect knowledge economics, an approach they pioneered, provides a better understanding of markets and the financial crisis. Frydman and Goldberg deliver a withering critique of the widely accepted view that the boom in equity prices that ended in 2007 was a bubble fueled by herd psychology. They argue, instead, that price swings are driven by individuals' ever-imperfect interpretations of the significance of economic fundamentals for future prices and risk. Because swings are at the heart of a dynamic economy, reforms should aim only to curb their excesses. Showing why we are being dangerously led astray by thinking of markets as predictably rational or irrational, Beyond Mechanical Markets presents a powerful challenge to conventional economic wisdom that we can't afford to ignore.

Author : Panayotis G. Korliras,Panagiōtēs G. Korliras,Richard S. Thorn
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015002324302

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Modern Macroeconomics by Panayotis G. Korliras,Panagiōtēs G. Korliras,Richard S. Thorn Pdf

Author : Ben J. Heijdra
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 937 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Macroeconomics
ISBN : 9780198784135

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Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics by Ben J. Heijdra Pdf

Using nothing more than undergraduate mathematical skills this book takes the reader from basic IS-LM style macro models to the state of the art literature on Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium. Dealing with all major topics it summarizes important approaches and provides a coherent angle on macroeconomic thought.

Author : Michel De Vroey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521898430

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A History of Macroeconomics from Keynes to Lucas and Beyond by Michel De Vroey Pdf

This book retraces the history of macroeconomics from Keynes's General Theory to the present. Central to it is the contrast between a Keynesian era and a Lucasian - or dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) - era, each ruled by distinct methodological standards. In the Keynesian era, the book studies the following theories: Keynesian macroeconomics, monetarism, disequilibrium macro (Patinkin, Leijongufvud, and Clower) non-Walrasian equilibrium models, and first-generation new Keynesian models. Three stages are identified in the DSGE era: new classical macro (Lucas), RBC modelling, and second-generation new Keynesian modeling. The book also examines a few selected works aimed at presenting alternatives to Lucasian macro. While not eschewing analytical content, Michel De Vroey focuses on substantive assessments, and the models studied are presented in a pedagogical and vivid yet critical way.

Author : Ryuzo Kuroki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136338854

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Keynes and Modern Economics by Ryuzo Kuroki Pdf

It is a little over seventy years since John Maynard Keynes produced his magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Keynes' staggering achievement has been to remain relevant to economics and other disciplines even today and this book reflects that with an examination on his influence on modern economics. Leading economists from a variety of backgrounds, including Ed Nell and Heinz Kurz have joined forces in this volume with internationally respected Japanese scholars to produce a strong collection of contributions to the debate on Keynes' monumental legacy. This book will be vital reading for historians of economic thought, economic methodologists as well as those economists with an interest in the overall development of their discipline.

Author : Sanjay K. Chugh
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262029377

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Modern Macroeconomics by Sanjay K. Chugh Pdf

A textbook that approaches modern macroeconomics through its microeconomic foundations, with an emphasis on financial market connections and policy applications. The modern study and analysis of macroeconomics begins by considering how microeconomic units—consumers and firms—make decisions, and then investigates how these choices interact to yield economy-wide outcomes. This innovative textbook takes this “modern” approach, teaching macroeconomics through its microeconomic foundations. It does so by adopting the representative agent paradigm. By modeling the representative consumer and the representative firm, students will learn to describe macroeconomic outcomes and consider the effects of macroeconomic policies. Unique in its coverage of monopolistic competition, financial markets, and the interaction of fiscal and monetary policy, Modern Macroeconomics is suitable for use in intermediate undergraduate, advanced undergraduate, and graduate level courses. The book first introduces the building blocks of macroeconomics, the heart of which is the representative consumer. It goes on to offer a brief history of macroeconomic thought, including supply-side economics, the Phillips curve, and the New Keynesian framework. It then covers two policy applications, monetary policy and the interaction of monetary and fiscal policy; optimal policy analysis for both the flexible price and the rigid price case; long-run steady states, treating the Solow growth framework and the neoclassical growth model; a search-and-matching framework for the analysis of unemployment; and the application of the tools of modern macroeconomics to “open economy,” or international macroeconomics. End-of-chapter problem sets enable students to apply the concepts they have learned. A separate Solutions Manual will be available for students to purchase. Teaching materials, including complete solutions and slides, will be available to qualified instructors.