The State of Macro
Posted: 4 Jun 2010
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The State of Macro
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 08-12
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 20 Aug 2008
Last Revised: 26 Aug 2008
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The State of Macro
NBER Working Paper No. w14259
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 27 Aug 2008
Last Revised: 19 Jun 2022
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Date Written: January 2009
Abstract
For a long while after the explosion of macroeconomics in the 1970s, the field looked like a battlefield. Over time, however, mainly because facts do not go away, a largely shared vision both of fluctuations and of methodology has emerged. Not everything is fine. Like all revolutions, this one has come with the destruction of some knowledge, and it suffers from extremism and herding. None of this is deadly, however. The state of macro is good.
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Blanchard, Olivier J., The State of Macro (January 2009). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1594482 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.economics.050708.142952
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