Macroeconomics after the Crisis: Time to Deal with the Pretense-of-Knowledge Syndrome

In this paper I argue that the current core of macroeconomics—by which I mainly mean the so-called dynamic stochastic general equilibrium approach—has become so mesmerized with its own internal logic that it has began to confuse the precision it has achieved about its own world with the precision th...

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Main Author: Caballero, Ricardo
Format: Working Paper
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71548