Macroeconomics in the small and the large essays on microfoundations, macroeconomic applications and economic history in honor of Axel Leijonhufvud
1. Axel Leijonhufvud and the quest for micro-foundations : some reflections / David Laidler -- 2. Old-Keynesian economics / Roger E.A. Farmer -- 3. Interest rate setting in the presence of investment prospects and Knightian uncertainty / Edmund S. Phelps -- 4. Macroeconomics of broken promises / Dan...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edward Elgar
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 1. Axel Leijonhufvud and the quest for micro-foundations : some reflections / David Laidler -- 2. Old-Keynesian economics / Roger E.A. Farmer -- 3. Interest rate setting in the presence of investment prospects and Knightian uncertainty / Edmund S. Phelps -- 4. Macroeconomics of broken promises / Daniel Heymann -- 5. Bankruptcy and collateral in debt constrained markets / Timothy J. Kehoe and David K. Levine -- 6. Growth patterns of two types of macro-models : limiting behavior of one- and two-parameter poisson-dirichlet models / Masanao Aoki -- 7. Time inconsistency of robust control? / Lars Peter Hansen and Thomas J. Sargent -- 8. A tale of two countries : innovation and incentives among great inventors in Britain and the United States, 1750-1930 / B. Zorina Khan and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- 9. Macroeconomics with intelligent autonomous agents / Peter Howitt This book honors the work of Axel Leijonhufvud. The topics range from Keynesian economics and the economics of high inflation to the micro-foundations of macroeconomics and economic history. The authors comprise some of the very best economists active today |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 192 p ill |
| ISBN: | 1848440464 9781848446021 9781848440463 |