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Three revolutions in macroeconomics: their nature and influence

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Harry Johnson's 1971 ideas about the factors affecting the success of the Keynesian Revolution and the Monetarist Counter-revolution are summarised and extended to the analysis of the Rational Expectations-New Classical (RE-NC) Revolution. It is then argued that whereas Monetarism brought about a revival of the quantity theory of money from the limbo into which Keynesianism had pushed it, RE-NC modelling was responsible for that theory's most recent disappearance. This happened despite the fact that, initially, RE-NC economics appeared to be a mainly technical extension and refinement of Monetarism, rather than a radically new economic doctrine. Some implications of this story for todays' macroeconomics are briefly discussed.

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  • David Laidler, 2015. "Three revolutions in macroeconomics: their nature and influence," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(1), pages 1-25, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eujhet:v:22:y:2015:i:1:p:1-25
    DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2014.972114
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    • B21 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Microeconomics
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E41 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Demand for Money
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

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