Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its ...

Before the global economic crisis, mainstream macroeconomists had largely converged on a framework for the conduct of macroeconomic policy. The framework was elegant, and conceptually simple.

Consider The Economist’s Romer roundtable: Debt will keep growing. Not one macroeconomist acknowledges what I believe to be the true cause of the current collapse of effective demand: the extreme ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Noah Smith argues that professional macroeconomists have done a fine job since the Global Financial Crisis of ...

On August 9, 2007, the French Bank BNP Paribus halted redemptions to three investment funds active in US mortgage markets due to severe liquidity problems, an event that many mark as the beginning of ...

CONOR CLARKE has come up with a winning formula, I'll give him that—call up a wise, old economist and ask him some interesting questions about the current crisis. Following up on his sit-down (or ring ...

ROBERT LUCAS, one of the greatest macroeconomists of his generation, and his followers are “making ancient and basic analytical errors all over the place”. Harvard's Robert Barro, another towering ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Macroeconomists are once again caught up in a discussion about the future of their profession. An example has ...

Mainstream macroeconomists no longer ignore the financial sector. I can attest to that after doing my honest best to work my way through a reading list assigned to me on Twitter by Pedro Serôdio, a Ph ...

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