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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janssen, Maarten Christiaan Wilhelmus, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microeconomics.

Macroeconomics.

Equilibrium (Economics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-134-88413-3

1-134-88414-1

1-280-15013-0

0-203-97853-6

9780203978535

OCLC:

275283249