The Friedman Lucas Transition In Macroeconomics

Download or read book The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics written by Peter Galbács and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics: A Structuralist Approach considers how and to what extent monetarist and new classical theories of the business-cycle can be regarded as approximately true descriptions of a cycle’s causal structure or whether they can be no more than useful predictive instruments. This book will be of interest to upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and professionals concerned with practical, theoretical and historical aspects of macroeconomics and business-cycle modeling. Offers a wide selection of Robert Lucas’s unpublished works Discusses the history of business-cycle theories in the context of methodological advancements Suggests effective arguments for emphasizing the key role of representative agents and their assumed properties in macro-modeling