Reconstructing Macroeconomics - A Perspective from Statistical Physics and Combinatorial Stochastic Processes (Hardcover, New)

The authors treat macroeconomic models as composed of large numbers of micro-units or agents of several types, and explicitly discuss stochastic dynamic and combinatorial aspects of interactions among them. In mainstream macroeconomics sound microfoundations for macroeconomics has meant incorporating sophisticated intertemporal optimization by representative agents into models. Optimal growth theory, once meant to be normative, is now taught as a descriptive theory in mainstream macroeconomic courses. In neoclassical equilibria flexible prices led the economy to the state of full employment and marginal productivities are all equated. Professors Aoki and Yoshikawa contrariwise show that such equilibria are not possible in economies with a large number of agents of heterogeneous types. The authors treat equilibria as statistical distributions and not as fixed points. They employ a set of statistical dynamical tools via continuous-time Markov chains, and statistical distributions of fractions of agents by types available in the new literature of combinatorial stochastic processes, to reconstruct macroeconomic models.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Japan-US Center UFJ Bank Monographs on International Financial Markets
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	2007
Authors:	Masanao Aoki • Hiroshi Yoshikawa
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	354
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-83106-2
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Macroeconomics > General
LSN:	0-521-83106-7
Barcode:	9780521831062

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