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The fireman and the architect

In: What’s Right with Macroeconomics?

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Global crises are very rare events. After the Great Depression and the Great Stagflation, new macroeconomic paradigms associated with a new policy regime emerged. This book addresses how some macroeconomic ideas have failed, and examines which theories researchers should preserve and develop. It questions how the field of economics – still reeling from the global financial crisis initiated in the summer of 2007 – will respond.

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  • Xavier Timbeau, 2012. "The fireman and the architect," Chapters, in: Robert M. Solow & Jean-Philippe Touffut (ed.), What’s Right with Macroeconomics?, chapter 1, pages 8-32, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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