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Economic Theory ten years after the crisis: Just tweaking around the edges? and/or A bit of repair at the seams?

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  • Vassilis Droucopoulos

    (Emeritus Professor of the Department of Economics of the University of Athens.)

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It is my intention to address, primarily within the scope of mainstream macroeconomic theory, three of the questions making up the main theme of the conference, namely: How a very problematic theory continues to survive and dominate both the policy and the academic scene. What are the processes in the economy and the society that sustain its dominance? What is the condition of the economic Orthodoxy (particularly under its current form of the New Macroeconomic Consensus, that is the hybrid of mild neoliberalism with conservative New Keynesianism)? A good many orthodox economists hold the view that there is no necessity for a paradigm shift. On the contrary, a mere evolution towards a more pluralistic discipline would suffice. Hence the title of my talk.

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  • Vassilis Droucopoulos, 2018. "Economic Theory ten years after the crisis: Just tweaking around the edges? and/or A bit of repair at the seams?," Working Papers 2001, Greek Scientific Association of Political Economy - GAPE, revised Dec 2018.
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