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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450821103321

Autore

Backhouse Roger

Titolo

Interpreting macroeconomics [[electronic resource] ] : explorations in the history of macroeconomic thought / / Roger E. Backhouse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

1-280-33381-2

0-203-01217-8

0-203-27734-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Disciplina

339

Soggetti

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents

Sommario/riassunto

Interpreting Macroeconomics explores a variety of different approaches to macroeconomic thought. The book considers a number of historiographical and methodological positions, as well as analyzing various important episodes in the development of macroeconomics, before during and after the Keynesian revolution. Roger Backhouse shows that the full richness of these developments can only by brought out by approaches which blend both relativism and absolutism, and historical and rational reconstructions. Examples discussed include Hobson, Keynes and Friedman.