Routledge Handbook of Macroeconomic Methodology

ISBN-13: 9781138816626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 544 str.

Jesper Jespersen; Victoria Chick

Opis

This Handbook will give a structured presentation of the study of the methods by which macroeconomics is researched, taught and communicated both within academia and to a wider audience, and why specific theories, research strategies and teaching are preferred. An international range of experts provide clear analysis of the concepts, ideas and principles to give academics, students and others a better understanding of the macroeconomics behind policy conclusions which are put forward at different levels.

Spis treści

Introduction: The scope and content of the Handbook I. Philosophy of Science Perspectives I.1. Methodological Individualism and Macroeconomics I.2. Deduction, Induction and Abduction I.3. Instrumentalism I.4 From positivism to naturalism in macroeconomics I.5. Holism & Fallacy of Composition I.6. Macroeconomics and Ethics  II. Concepts  II.1 Time in Macroeconomics  II.2 Uncertainty and Macroeconomic Methodology  II.3 Path dependency  II.4 Equilibrium  II.5 Causality and macroeconomics  II.6 Microeconomic foundation of macroeconomics  II.7 Open and closed systems  II.8. Money and Macroeconomic Methodology  　III. Schools of Thought  III.1. Classical Political Economy  III.2. Neoclassical Macroeconomics  III.3. Keynes’s Macroeconomic Method  III.4. Post Keynesian Methodology  III.5. The Austrian Denial of Macroeconomics  III.6. What was Marx’s Method, actually?  III.7. Methodological Pluralism in Macroeconomics  　IV. Models, Econometrics and Measurement  IV.1. Use of Mathematics in macroeconomic analysis  IV.2. Explanation and Forecasting  IV.3. Using macroeconomic models in policy practice  IV.4. Traditional Methods of Macroeconometrics  IV.5. Macroeconometrics: Cointegrated VAR Method  IV.6. National Accounts and Macroeconomic Methodology  V. Communicating Macroeconomics  V.1. The rhetorical perspective on macroeconomics  V.2. Teaching Macroeconomic Methodology