Roger E. Backhouse

Interpreting Macroeconomics (eBook, PDF)

Explorations in the History of Macroeconomic Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Macroeconomics is a highy complex topic and there are a number of different approaches to macroeconomic thought. This book explores the approaches as well as analyzing important episodes concerned with the Keynesian revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134741069
• Artikelnr.: 38243764

Autorenporträt

Roger E. Backhouse is Reader in the History of Economic Thought at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of A History of Modern Economic Analysis (1985), Economists and the Economy (1994) and two macroeconomics textbooks. He is also a co-editor of Economics and Language (1993) and the editor of New Directions in Economic Methodology (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Methodology, rhetoric and the history of macroeconomic thought
Part 1 Historiography
Chapter 2 Relativism in the history of economic thought
Chapter 3 Fact, fiction or moral tale? How should we approach the history of economic thought?
Chapter 4 History's many dimensions
Part 2 Macroeconomics before Keynes
Chapter 5 J.A.Hobson as a macroeconomic theorist
Chapter 6 F.A.Walker's theory of 'hard times'
Chapter 7 Keynes, American institutionalism and uncertainty
Part 3 Methodology and macroeconomics
Chapter 8 Macroeconomics Since Keynes: Two Interpretations
Chapter 9 A methodological appraisal of Keynesian economics
Chapter 10 The neo-Walrasian research programme in macroeconomics
Part 4 Rhetoric and macroeconomics
Chapter 11 Rhetoric and implicit methodology in Friedman's macroeconomics
Chapter 12 Rhetoric and persuasion in macroeconomics: a comparison of Muth and Leijonhufvud