What's Wrong with Macroeconomics?

Um muito bom apanhado do Prof. Mark Thoma, em seu blog de ontem (ver http://economistsview.typepad.com/) sobre o que está errado com a Macroeconomia!

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What’s Wrong with Macroeconomics?

Some recent contributions to “what’s wrong with macroeconomics?”:

• Nick Rowe: John Cochrane, Paul Krugman, and Say’s Law, again
• Brad Delong: In Which Nick Rowe Says John Cochrane Commits “Small But important” Errors…
• Free Exchange: Which caricature do you prefer?
• Mario Rizzo: The Great Moderation in Macroeconomics
• Vernon Smith and David Colander: Causes of the Crisis
• Robert Gordon: Is Modern Macro or 1978-era Macro More Relevant to the Understanding of the Current Economic Crisis? [introduction posted below]
• David Warsh: Economics and Its Discontents [posted below]
• Paul Krugman: Freshwater Rage [posted below]
• Brad DeLong: More Musings on the Total Intellectual Train Wreck that is Today’s Chicago School…
• Free Exchange: What the economists aren’t explaining
• Barkley Rosser: How Seriously Wrong John Cochrane Is

Added 9/15:

• Update Brad DeLong: The Chicago School’s Intellectual Collapse Continued: Richard Posner Is Uranus…
• Update Peter Dorman: Did Krugman Get it Right on How the Economists Got it Wrong?
  (part 2)
• Update Murat Iyigun: Paul: Hand Johnny Some Rope, Will You?
• Update Justin Wolfers: Lucas on the Shortcomings of Modern Macro

Also:

• Paul Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
• Barry Eichengreen: The Last Temptation of Risk
• Philip Lane: Economists and the Crisis
• David Altig: Economists got it wrong, but why?
• John Cochrane: How did Paul Krugman get it so Wrong?
• David Laidler: Lucas, Keynes, and the Crisis
• Mark Thoma: “The Great Multiplier Debate”
• Antonio Fatas and Ilian Mihov: Did economists ever get it right?
• Robert Levine: On Krugman
• The Economist: Lucas Roundtable (Lucas)
• The Economist: What went wrong with economics
• The Economist: The other-wordly philosophers
• The Economist: Efficiency and beyond
• Cosmic Variance: Mistaking Beauty for Truth
• Mark Gertler: The State of Macroeconomics (scroll down)
• Willem Buiter The unfortunate uselessness of most ’state of the art’ academic monetary economics
• Mark Thoma “The Unfortunate Uselessness of Most ‘State of the Art’ Academic Monetary Economics”
• Tim Harford Are those who sweat the big stuff in meltdown?
• Francesco Caselli: Economists are actively engaged in seeking remedies to the crisis
• Mark Thoma Macroeconomic Meltdown?
• Daniel Kahneman: Irrational everything
• Mark Thoma: Are Macroeconomic Models Useful?
• Roman Frydman: Mathematical Formalism in Economics
• Dani Rodrik: Blame economists, not economics
• Mark Thoma The State of Macroeconomics (scroll down)
• George Waters: “Equilibrium and Meltdown”
• Paul Krugman and Roman Frydman: “The Gratuitous Ignorance of Many of our Economists”
• Mark Thoma: Can Econometricians Tell Us which Macroeconomic Model is Best?
• David Colander, Hans Föllmer, Armin Haas, Michael Goldberg, Katarina Juselius, Alan Kirman, and Thomas Lux The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics
• Kenneth Arrow: Risky business

[This list is incomplete, so please add any I've missed in comments.]

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