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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783053903321

Autore

Janssen Maarten Christiaan Wilhelmus <1962, >

Titolo

Microfoundations : a critical inquiry / / Maarten C. W. Janssen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1993

ISBN

1-134-88413-3

1-134-88414-1

1-280-15013-0

0-203-97853-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

338.5

Soggetti

Microeconomics

Macroeconomics

Equilibrium (Economics)

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. 185-193) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE MEANING OF MICRO AND MACRO IN ECONOMICS; 2 INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR AND AGGREGATE RELATIONS; 3 GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS AND MACROECONOMICS: ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMMES; INTERMEZZO; 4 ECONOMICS AND THE REAL WORLD; 5 AGGREGATION, ANALOGY AND THE REPRESENTATIVE AGENT; 6 ON THE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF AGGREGATE DEMAND; 7  INDIVIDUALISTIC FOUNDATIONS FOR MARKET EQUILIBRIUM; 8 THE INDIVIDUAL RATIONALITY OF RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS; 9  WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED MICROFOUNDATIONS?; 10  RATIONALIZABLE ANIMAL SPIRITS

CONCLUSIONNOTES; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This argues that it is really microeconomics' concern with the functioning of markets that underlies the theories which attempt to provide macroeconomics with microfoundations.