ABSTRACT
Interpreting Macroeconomics explores a variety of different approaches to macroeconomic thought. The book considers a number of historiographical and methodological positions, as well as analyzing various important episodes in the development of macroeconomics, before during and after the Keynesian revolution. Roger Backhouse shows that the full richness of these developments can only by brought out by approaches which blend both relativism and absolutism, and historical and rational reconstructions. Examples discussed include Hobson, Keynes and Friedman.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Methodology, rhetoric and the history of macroeconomic thought
part |47 pages
Historiography
chapter |13 pages
Relativism in the history of economic thought
chapter |9 pages
History's many dimensions
part |51 pages
Macroeconomics before Keynes
chapter |24 pages
J.A.Hobson as a macroeconomic theorist *
chapter |15 pages
F.A.Walker's theory of ‘hard times' *
chapter |9 pages
Keynes, American institutionalism and uncertainty
part |66 pages
Methodology and macroeconomics
chapter |18 pages
Macroeconomics Since Keynes: Two Interpretations *
chapter |19 pages
A methodological appraisal of Keynesian economics
chapter |26 pages
The neo-Walrasian research programme in macroeconomics *
part |38 pages
Rhetoric and macroeconomics