Rethinking Expectations : : The Way Forward for Macroeconomics / / ed. by Edmund S. Phelps, Roman Frydman.

This book originated from a 2010 conference marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the landmark "Phelps volume," Microeconomic Foundations of Employment and Inflation Theory, a book that is often credited with pioneering the currently dominant approach to macroeconomic anal...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.) :; 48 line illus. 18 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Which Way Forward for Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis?
  • Part one. Back to the Foundations
  • 1. Expectational Coordination Failures and Market Volatility
  • 2. Learning as a Rational Foundation for Macroeconomics and Finance
  • 3. Keynes on Knowledge, Expectations, and Rationality
  • 4. The Imperfect Knowledge Imperative in Modern Macroeconomics and Finance Theory
  • Part two. Autonomous Expectations in Long Swings in Asset Prices
  • 5. Heterogeneous Gain Learning and Long Swings in Asset Prices
  • 6. Opening Models of Asset Prices and Risk to Nonroutine Change
  • Part three. Rethinking Unemployment-Inflation Trade-offs and the Natural Rate Theory
  • 7. Animal Spirits, Persistent Unemployment, and the Belief Function
  • 8. Indeterminacies in Wage and Asset Price Expectations
  • 9. The Long Swings of Employment, Investment, and Asset Prices
  • 10. Imperfect Knowledge, Asset Price Swings, and Structural Slumps
  • 11. Stabilization Policies and Economic Growth
  • Part four. Policymaking after "Rational Expectations"
  • 12. Swings and the Rules-Discretion Balance
  • 13. Principled Policymaking in an Uncertain World
  • Contributors
  • Index