... overlapping-
generations model, as two classes of households. One class can trade
assets against the state of the world, while the other can’t because it is
born later, so it has to trade just on the spot market. ... militant Marxist economist. When I
developed input–output analysis it was as a response to the weaknesses
of classical–neoclassical supply-and-demand analysis. It was...
... established him as the economists’ economist by raising
the standards of the entire profession. Paul Samuelson s classic textbook,
Economics, first published in 1948, is among the most successful ... to see that the history of economics is not just the
history told by the research scientists themselves, but it is a history of the
import and impact of ideas (see Bernstein 20 0...
... Economics, is now writing a paper analyzing the East Asian
crisis using the same concept to explain the situation there. The relation-
ship between the government, banks, and enterprises show signs ... 1956; it was my graduate thesis.
Blanchard: Did you choose the topic yourself? Did you have a thesis
adviser?
Kornai: I did choose the topic myself. I had a thesis adviser; Profes...
... career?
Friedman: So far as your questions about economics versus statistics is
concerned, you should note that, for the two years before I went to the
Statistical Research Group, I was at the U .S. Treasury ... tested and I derived its implications.
I tested those implications and, on the whole, they tended to confirm the
hypothesis. I suggested additional tests that should be made...
... hostile 1936 review of The General Theory (occasioned much by
Keynes s flippancies about Marshall and the classics”), handsomely
acknowledged wisdoms in The General Theory s approaches in his ... only speeds up the day that its industry moves
abroad.
(2) There has been a 1980 20 03 swing to the right among voters,
whose swing away from “altruism” is somewhat proportional to the
t...
... but also that they should have smooth time paths. The
data show the slow and smooth cross-variable responses, but not the
correspondingly smooth time paths. The stickiness paper showed how
you could ... underpinnings of the theory has been useful.
Now there have also been other papers on this topic that may be what
you had in mind. These papers question whether the theory makes a...
... 20 01.
That part of his life has been well documented in newspapers and maga-
zines: While at the IMF, he was on the front lines during the Mexican
crisis, the Russian crisis, the Asian crises, ... growth
theory for so long. The other proposition is that recessions don’t really
matter because the loss of consumer surplus is five decimal places down.
That strikes me as a problem...
... Economics, better known as EDP, was started in 1978. It
has some 120 graduates to date. The first of these, a certain Pierre
Dehez, set the standards! One of the indicators of success is that EDP
has ... you must listen to people who disagree with us. Take
the field exams as soon as possible and then visit some other university or
universities before returning to Belgium.”
That is the...
... theory.
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chemistry
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of the aspects and understands less and less of the others. ... hands with this stuff.”
There is no justification for this in the game-theoretic sociology, just as
there was no justification for it in the mathematics sociology. Each one
of these branch...
... asked many of the same questions to both, and focused much
of the conversation on the issue of whether it is useful to distinguish a
Yale school. Thus, the conversations discuss the work of other ... profession itself, I guess there is a strong current for equi-
librium solutions. There always has been. The rational-expectations
New Classical real business theory also offered youn...