Isolation and Aggregation in Economics

Schlicht, Ekkehart (1985): Isolation and Aggregation in Economics. With annotations 2017.

Abstract

In explaining economic phenomena, economic analysis concentrates on selected influences and fixes the host of other factors under a ceteris paribus clause. This view, which goes back to Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), is developed in the first part of the book. Aggregation is viewed as a particular application of ceteris paribus analysis - isolation from "structural effects". This leads to an approach, called "closed aggregation", which was introduced by Kenneth May and is also implicit in Keynes' writings but has been neglected more recently. It is argued that macroeconomic models are more stable and more general than the corresponding micro models and that there is no simple analogy between them.

• Dokumententyp: Monographie
• Publikationsform: Postprint
• Keywords: Aggregation, moving equilibrium, temporary equilibrium, Keynes, Marshall, ceteris-paribus, isolation, method, microfoundations of macroeconomics, history of economic thought
• Fakultät: Volkswirtschaft ; Volkswirtschaft > Munich Discussion Papers in Economics ; Volkswirtschaft > Lehrstühle > Seminar für Theorie und Politik der Einkommensverteilung (aufgelöst)
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologie ; 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
• Signatur: UBM:0001/8 86-1231a
• Sprache: Englisch

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