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Sur l'hypothèse de rationalité en théorie macro-économique

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[fre] Il ne s'agit plus aujourd'hui de justifier l'hypothèse mais d'examiner comment elle est employée et doit être éventuellement amendée. La rationalité, toujours accompagnée de suppositions secondaires, s'avère inexacte. Face à ce constat, les macro-économistes dans leur majorité sont prêts en principe à modifier leurs hypothèses s'ils voient comment le faire de façon utile et réaliste. Une telle atti­tude est scientifiquement correcte. Jusqu'à présent, elle ne conduit pas à recom­mander un changement de paradigme mais à trouver des solutions pragmatiques aux inexactitudes. Pour ces solutions, comme pour le traitement essentiel de l'agrégation, les enseignements de l'observation doivent être pris en compte dès la première élaboration du modèle. [eng] Today the purpose no longer is to present justifications for the hypothesis but rather to study how it is used and how it might have to be amended Rationality always followed by auxiliary assumptions proves to be inexact Knowing it most macroeconomists are in principle ready to revise their hypotheses if they see how to do it usefully and realisti cally Such stand is scientifically correct Up to now it did not lead to recommend paradigm- shift but to look for pragmatic solutions to inexactitudes For those solutions as well as for the important aggregation problem what is learned from observation has to be taken into account from the first specification of the model

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  • Edmond Malinvaud, 1995. "Sur l'hypothèse de rationalité en théorie macro-économique," Revue Économique, Programme National Persée, vol. 46(3), pages 523-536.
    • Handle: RePEc:prs:reveco:reco_0035-2764_1995_num_46_3_409658
    DOI: 10.3406/reco.1995.409658
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