Macroeconomic Confusion

Ekkehart Schlicht ()

Discussion Papers in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: This note critically evaluates the New Classical Macroeconomics from a Marshallian perspective. Revisiting the famous Keynes-Tinbergen controversy, it is argued that Keynes' criticism comprises the "Lucas critique," and that it is misleading to label this a critique of Keynesian economics. The postulate of immutable economic structures carries Tinbergen's approach to the extreme and neglects the possibility of slowly changing structures, as conceived by Marshall. The position is defended by arguments about equilibrium and rationality that are admittedly empty.

Keywords: macroeconomics; real business cycles; Lucas critique; Marshall; Keynes; Tinbergen; time-varying coefficients; adaptive estimation; Kalman filter; equilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E1 B22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mac and nep-pke
Date: 2006-02
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