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Preocupaciones sobre la microeconomía que nos ensenan los libros de texto básicos

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  • Sergio Monsalve

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En este artículo, dirigido especialmente a los estudiantes avanzados del pregrado en economía, se plantean numerosas preocupaciones sobre la microeconomía que se aprende en los libros de texto básicos. Entre ellas, sobre la pertinencia y limitaciones de los modelos de equilibrio parcial, general y de la teoría de juegos clásica en el estudio profundo de los mercados y sus “fallas”; y también, sobre una importante ausencia, en esos textos, de trabajo microeconómico empírico (econometría, calibraciones, simulaciones por modelos basados en agentes, experimentos), que confronte la teoría. Adicionalmente se presentan algunas propuestas para hacer del estudio de la microeconomía del pregrado algo más pertinente, incluyendo la posible emergencia de la teoría de redes (sociales y económicas) y la mecánica estadística como herramientas adicionales. Esta discusión podría ayudar a explicar, en general, por qué la teoría de precios y mercados, a la manera que nos la ensenan los textos básicos de microeconomía, no es totalmente exitosa. *** This article, aimed especially at advanced undergraduate students in economics, raises numerous concerns about the microeconomics taught in basic textbooks. Among them, about the relevance and limitations of partial and general equilibrium models and classical game theory in the in-depth study of markets and their "failures"; and, about an important absence, in these texts, of empirical microeconomic work (econometrics, calibrations, simulations by agent-based models, experiments), which confronts the theory. Some proposals are presented to make the study of undergraduate microeconomics more relevant, including the possible emergence of network theory (social and economic) and statistical mechanics as additional tools. This discussion may help to explain, in general, why market and price theory, as taught in the basic microeconomics textbooks, is not entirely successful.

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  • Sergio Monsalve, 2021. "Preocupaciones sobre la microeconomía que nos ensenan los libros de texto básicos," Documentos de Trabajo, Escuela de Economía 19718, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000178:019718
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    Keywords

    educación y enseñanza de la economía; microeconomía; teoría de juegos y negociación; diseño; precios y estructura de mercado; equilibrio general y desequilibrio;
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    • A2 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics
    • C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
    • D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
    • D5 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium

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