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The (Many) Things Macroeconomists Don't Know

Harvard Business Review

What Trichet said was that state-of-the-art macroeconomic theory was almost entirely useless in dealing with the crisis that began in 2007. Buuut "atomistic rational agents [the figures that populate DSGE models] don't capture behavior during a crisis." He regrets that economists didn't give him better advice.

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Economics Nobel a Lagging Indicator

Harvard Business Review

In this case, the award has been given for work that shores up a fiction of economics—rational expectations theory—that is complicit in the financial crisis and has been renounced even by Alan Greenspan. Econometricians would characterize the Prize as a lagging indicator of the state of the discipline.