Cet article propose une evaluation critique de ce que le courant néoclassique appelle la "nouvelle theorie" de la croissance. Il analyse ce qu'est la "croissance endogene", en presentant, dans une premiere partie, les origines, mecanismes et catégories de modèles à progres technique...

Simple life cycle and permanent income hypotheses imply that changes in consumption should be unforecastable. Rational forward-looking agents ought to smooth consumption over the life cycle and exhaust the asset stock accumulated during the working career in retirement. Empirical observations...

Cette contribution a pour objectif d'analyser les proprietes de long terme d'une maquette de modele macroeconomique de type neo-keynesien, dans laquelle sont introduites deux formalisations alternatives de l'equation de salaire. Les proprietes de l'equilibre de long terme obtenu par la...

The paper reports results that show a much weakened statistical relationship between total bank credit, total deposits and the broad money supply for the period after 1995 for the US, where no statistical causation can be discerned in either direction. This has been the result of the changing...

In the late 40-ies of XX c., Claude Shannon developed the formula for the information unit, the bit. Since then, the problem concerning the informative essence of the economic processes and the phenomena in general initiated a new direction in science. However, the information theory has still...

This paper critically analyses Bateman's interpretation of Keynes's thought as presented in his 1996 book, Keynes's Uncertain Revolution. The book has two main aims. One is to present a 'thick' history of the evolution of Keynes's thinking on probability and uncertainty, by which is meant a...

This note summarizes the symposium, "Say's Law Revisited." The most remarkable achievement of the symposium has been the manner in which it has cleared away important parts of the mythology which has surrounded Say's Law since the publication of the "General Theory". It is clear that what is...

This paper argues that Keynes's "theory of effective demand" merely restates in outwardly novel aggregative terms ideas that are part and parcel of "classical theory," and so adds nothing of substance to orthodox doctrine. The aim of the paper is to impugn neither The General Theory nor...

The Invisible Hand, one of the Great Ideas of history and one of the most influential, is Adam Smith's most important legacy to macroeconomics, as to all economics. It is particularly important today as the ultimate inspiration for the New Classical Macroeconomics and for Real Business Cycle...