The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics
A Structuralist Approach
- 1st Edition - February 19, 2020
- Author: Peter Galbács
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 5 6 5 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 5 5 3 - 9
The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics: A Structuralist Approach considers how and to what extent monetarist and new classical theories of the business-cycle can be regard… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics: A Structuralist Approach considers how and to what extent monetarist and new classical theories of the business-cycle can be regarded as approximately true descriptions of a cycle’s causal structure or whether they can be no more than useful predictive instruments. This book will be of interest to upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and professionals concerned with practical, theoretical and historical aspects of macroeconomics and business-cycle modeling.
- Offers a wide selection of Robert Lucas’s unpublished works
- Discusses the history of business-cycle theories in the context of methodological advancements
- Suggests effective arguments for emphasizing the key role of representative agents and their assumed properties in macro-modeling
Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and professionals concerned with business cycles, especially in macroeconomics
1. Methodology…?! Why?2. Standing on the edge: Lucas in the Chicago tradition3. Agents and structures4. Realism and instrumentalism along the Friedman-Lucas transition5. The end of economics?
- No. of pages: 396
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 19, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128165652
- eBook ISBN: 9780128165539
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