Modeling Extreme Instability

By Shani Schechter | Mar 27, 2015

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What Macro Theorists Don’t Know

Perusing what macro theorists publish and teach reveals shockingly large gaps in what they appear to know about how modern, highly specialized economies actually work. Given that macroeconomists are...
Original Efficiency-Wage Theorists

This post places the research of Arthur Okun, the subject of last week’s essay, in the larger context of what came to be known as efficiency-wage (EW) theory. The workplace...
Recalling Arthur Okun

Arthur Okun’s name came up. It happened in a conversation with a friend from the high-wire policymaking days at the Fed when stagflation – simultaneously high unemployment and high...
Replacement Theory Part II

This post continues my brief summary of why generalized-exchange theory should replace general-market equilibrium as the profession’s dominate macro model. This concluding instalment focuses on when and how market-centric...

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