Transforming modern macroeconomics exploring disequilibrium microfoundations, 1956-2003

This book tells the story of the search for disequilibrium micro-foundations for macroeconomic theory, from the disequilibrium theories of Patinkin, Clower and Leijonhufvud to recent dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with imperfect competition. Placing this search against the background...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Backhouse, Roger, Boianovsky, Mauro (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
Series:Historical perspectives on modern economics
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Macroeconomics after Keynes
  • 3. Don Patinkin and the neoclassical synthesis
  • 4. Clower, Leijonhufvud and the re-appraisal of Keynesian economics
  • 5. Macroeconomics with slow price adjustment
  • 6. 'Equilibrium' microfoundations
  • 7. General equilibrium and imperfect competition
  • 8. Microeconomics and macroeconomics
  • 9. After the 1970s
  • 10. Conclusions