Ebook: Post Walrasian macroeconomics beyond the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model

Episodes in a century of macroeconomics / Axel Leijonhufvud -- Post Walrasian macroeconomics : some historic links / David Colander -- The problem of time in the DSGE model and the post Walrasian alternative / Perry Mehrling -- Who is post Walrasian man? / Peter Hans Matthews -- Social interactions and macroeconomics ; Macroeconomics and model uncertainty / William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf -- Restricted perceptions equilibria and learning in macroeconomics / William A. Branch -- Not more so : some concepts outside the DSGE framework / Masanao Aoki -- Agent-based computational modeling and macroeconomics / Leigh Tesfatsion -- Multi-agent systems macro : a prospectus / Robert L. Axtell -- Agent-based financial markets : matching stylized facts with style / Blake LeBaron -- The past as the future : the Marshallian approach to post Walrasian econometrics / Kevin D. Hoover -- Old world econometrics and new world theory / Roger E.A. Farmer -- Four entrenched notions post Walrasians should avoid / Robert L. Basmann -- Confronting the economic model with the data / Søren Johansen -- Extracting information from the data : a European view on empirical macro / Katarina Juselius and Søren Johansen -- Economic policy in the presence of coordination problems / Russell W. Cooper -- Monetary policy and the limitations of economic knowledge / Peter Howitt.;Macroeconomics is evolving in an almost dialectic fashion. The latest evolution is the development of a new synthesis that combines insights of new classical, new Keynesian and real business cycle traditions into a dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model that serves as a foundation for thinking about macro policy. That new synthesis has opened up the door to a new antithesis, which is being driven by advances in computing power and analytic techniques. This new synthesis is coalescing around developments in complexity theory, automated general to specific econometric modeling, agent-based models, and non-linear and statistical dynamical models. This book thus provides the reader with an introduction to what might be called a Post Walrasian research program that is developing as the antithesis of the Walrasian DSGE synthesis.