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La solitudine dell'agente rappresentativo: eterogeneità e interazione per una nuova macroeconomia (The solitude of the representative agant: Heterogeneity and interaction for a new macroeconomics)

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  • Giovanni Dosi

    (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa)

  • Andrea Roventini

    (: Scuola Superiore Sant?Anna Pisa, OFCE Sciences Po, Sophia-Antipolis)

Abstract

La Grande Recessione è stata un esperimento naturale per la macroeconomica, mostrando l'inadeguatezza della teoria dominante basata sui modelli DSGE. La macroeconomia dovrebbe considerare l'economia come un sistema complesso in evoluzione, cioé come un'ecologia popolata da agenti eterogenei, che interagiscono fuori dall'equilibrio cambiando continuamente la struttura stessa del sistema. Quindi, la macroeconomia non può ridursi alle scelte micro di un agente rappresentativo, ma le complesse interazioni tra gli agenti portano all'emergenza di nuovi fenomeni e strutture gerarchiche a livello macro. Questo è alla base dei modelli ad agenti eterogenei, che offrono una nuova metodologia per modellare economie complesse "dal basso", con microfondazioni in linea con l'evidenza empirica. The Great Recession was a natural experiment for macroeconomics, showing the inadequacy of the predominant theoretical framework grounded on DSGE models. Macroeconomics should consider the economy as a complex evolving system, i.e. as an ecology populated by heterogeneous agents, whose far-from-equilibrium interactions continuously change the structure of the system. This in turn implies that macroeconomics cannot be shrunk to representative-agent micro, but agents' complex interactions lead to emergence of new phenomena and hierarchical structure at the macro level. This is what is taken into account by agent-based models, which provide a novel way to model complex economies from the bottom-up, with sound empirically-based microfoundations.

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  • Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini, 2019. "La solitudine dell'agente rappresentativo: eterogeneità e interazione per una nuova macroeconomia (The solitude of the representative agant: Heterogeneity and interaction for a new macroeconomics)," Moneta e Credito, Economia civile, vol. 72(287), pages 249-258.
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    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
    • B50 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - General
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

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