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Macroeconomics for dummies… it takes a Nobel Prize Winner… George Akerlof’s Nobel lecture

Posted on September 18, 2013 by mkevane

Probably the best single guide to the behavioral perspective on macro… why it is relevant, why it is better, and what the models are doing…  Can be read over and over again for nuance.  Did he have help from Thomas Pynchon?

 

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Economist at Santa Clara University and Director of Friends of African Village Libraries.
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