1. Introduction; 2. Macroeconomics after Keynes; 3. Don Patinkin and the neoclassical synthesis; 4. Clower, Leijonhufvud and the re-appraisal of Keynesian economics; 5. Macroeconomics with slow price adjustment; 6. 'Equilibrium' microfoundations; 7. General equilibrium and imperfect competition; 8. Microeconomics and macroeconomics; 9. After the 1970s; 10. Conclusions; Bibliography.
This book tells the story of the search for disequilibrium micro-foundations for macroeconomic theory.
Roger E. Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham, where he has taught since 1980, and at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2007 he was Ludwig Lachmann Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. He currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. He is the co-editor (with Philippe Fontaine) of The History of the Social Sciences since 1945 (Cambridge, 2010) and The Unsocial Social Science? Economics and Neighboring Disciplines since 1945 (2010) and (with Bradley W. Bateman) of The Cambridge Companion to Keynes (Cambridge, 2006). He is co-author (with Bradley W. Bateman) of Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes. He is author of The Puzzle of Modern Economics, The Ordinary Business of Life and The Penguin History of Economics. He has written for a number of journals including Economica, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, History of Political Economy, the Journal of the History of Economic Thought and the Journal of Economic Methodology. He has been review editor of the Economic Journal, editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology and associate editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Mauro Boianovsky is Professor of Economics at Universidade de Brasilia, where he has taught since 1996, when he obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is the editor of Business Cycle Theories: Selected Texts, 1860–1939 (2008) and co-editor (with Kevin Hoover) of Robert Solow and the Development of Growth Economics (2009). He has written for a number of journals including History of Political Economy, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Professor Boianovsky has been on the advisory board of History of Political Economy, the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cahiers D'Economie Politique and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. He has been awarded best article prizes by the History of Economics Society (1999, 2007) and the Brazilian Economic Association (1996, 1998, 2011).
'Roger Backhouse and Mauro Boianovsky provide a fascinating, lively
and meticulously researched account of the quest for non-Walrasian
microfoundations of macroeconomic theory, from the efforts of Don
Patinkin, Robert Clower, and Axel Leijonhufvud to understand
Keynesian economics in terms of quantity constraints and
coordination failures to recent attempts to incorporate imperfect
competition in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. This
book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in modern
macroeconomics and its history.' Robert W. Dimand, Brock
University
'For the real story of how macroeconomics got to its present state,
you need to read this book. Backhouse and Boianovsky do a beautiful
job of untangling a complicated literature that others have found
convenient to forget.' Peter Howitt, Brown University
'… this is a very nice book written by two specialists on the
history of macroeconomics, and one that brings to the fore a
crucial development that transformed the area: the disequilibrium
literature.' Pedro Garcia Duarte, Journal of the History of
Economic Thought
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