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Problems With Modern Economics

In: Selected Papers Of Lawrence R Klein: Theoretical Reflections And Econometric Applications

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  • Kanta Marwah

    (Carleton University, Canada)

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Modern macroeconomics has become vague, subjective, uncertain, and unhelpful in policy formation, revealing too much faith in automatic corrections of markets. Criticisms can be made, in particular, about the use of rational expectations, principal agent analysis, and monetarism. Modern econometrics can be criticized for diversion of attention away from the central role of statistical specification of the probability distribution of error together with economic specification of structural relationships towards preoccupation with the statistical properties of individual or small subgroups of economic variables, which are the very objects of the whole econometric investigation. The unquestioning reliance on cointegration and lead–lag studies of causations in simple, bivariate relationships have taken attention away from the role of economics in specifying multivariate nonlinear systems. Some comments are made on the use of high-frequency data for improving econometric forecasting. (JEL EO)

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  • Kanta Marwah, 1997. "Problems With Modern Economics," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Kanta Marwah (ed.), Selected Papers Of Lawrence R Klein: Theoretical Reflections And Econometric Applications, chapter 36, pages 631-636, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Keywords

    Macroeconomics: Theory; Policy Formation; Reconsiderations; Macroeconometric Models: Methodology; Forecasting; Debate; Prospects; International Economics: Capital Flows; Exchange Rates; Expectations;
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    • C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
    • C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General

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