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Macroeconomics without the representative agent: Difficulties and new perspectives

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  • Edoardo GAFFEO

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This paper surveys the most important approaches macroeconomic theory has recently developed in an attempt to overcame the theoretical and empirical fallacies hidden in the representative agent framework. After discussing why the latter has been widely criticized, a rough classification of the new methods is proposed. Accounting for the way each of them treats the distributional features and the way agents interact, it is then possible to distinguish among statistical aggregation, "game theory"-based and "interacting particles"-based coordination models.

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  • Edoardo GAFFEO, 1995. "Macroeconomics without the representative agent: Difficulties and new perspectives," Working Papers 68, Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (I), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali.
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