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Does Macroeconomics Need Microeconomic Foundations?

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  • Da Silva, Sergio

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I argue that it is microeconomics that needs foundations, not macroeconomics. Preferences need to be built on biology, and, in particular, on neuroscience. In contrast, macroeconomics could benefit from rationalizations of aggregate economic phenomena by non-equilibrium statistical physics.

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Volume (Year): 3 (2009)
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Pages: 1-11

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Keywords: Microfoundations; neuroeconomics; econophysics;

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  1. Macroeconomics needs more microfoundations than microeconomics
    by Economic Logician in Economic Logic on 2009-03-16 09:10:00
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Cited by:

  1. Domenico Gatti & Edoardo Gaffeo & Mauro Gallegati, 2010. "Complex agent-based macroeconomics: a manifesto for a new paradigm," Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Springer;Society for Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, vol. 5(2), pages 111-135, December.
  2. Da Silva, Sergio, 2014. "Time to Abandon Group Thinking in Economics - Updated," MPRA Paper 60559, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  3. Da Silva, Sergio, 2013. "Time to abandon group thinking in economics," MPRA Paper 45660, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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