Time, Ignorance, and Uncertainty in Economic Models

Time, Ignorance, and Uncertainty in Economic Models
Title Time, Ignorance, and Uncertainty in Economic Models PDF eBook
Author Donald W. Katzner
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 502
Release 1998
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0472109383

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Formal economic analysis using Shackle's ideas of historical time and nonprobabilistic uncertainty

Ignorance and Uncertainty

Ignorance and Uncertainty
Title Ignorance and Uncertainty PDF eBook
Author Olivier Compte
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 303
Release 2019
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1108422020

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Proposes novel methods to incorporate ignorance and uncertainty into economic modeling without complex mathematics.

Robustness

Robustness
Title Robustness PDF eBook
Author Lars Peter Hansen
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 453
Release 2016-06-28
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0691170975

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The standard theory of decision making under uncertainty advises the decision maker to form a statistical model linking outcomes to decisions and then to choose the optimal distribution of outcomes. This assumes that the decision maker trusts the model completely. But what should a decision maker do if the model cannot be trusted? Lars Hansen and Thomas Sargent, two leading macroeconomists, push the field forward as they set about answering this question. They adapt robust control techniques and apply them to economics. By using this theory to let decision makers acknowledge misspecification in economic modeling, the authors develop applications to a variety of problems in dynamic macroeconomics. Technical, rigorous, and self-contained, this book will be useful for macroeconomists who seek to improve the robustness of decision-making processes.

Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty

Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
Title Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty PDF eBook
Author Mark Machina
Publisher Newnes
Pages 897
Release 2013-11-14
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0444536868

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The need to understand the theories and applications of economic and finance risk has been clear to everyone since the financial crisis, and this collection of original essays proffers broad, high-level explanations of risk and uncertainty. The economics of risk and uncertainty is unlike most branches of economics in spanning from the individual decision-maker to the market (and indeed, social decisions), and ranging from purely theoretical analysis through individual experimentation, empirical analysis, and applied and policy decisions. It also has close and sometimes conflicting relationships with theoretical and applied statistics, and psychology. The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of diverse aspects of this field, ranging from classical and foundational work through current developments. - Presents coherent summaries of risk and uncertainty that inform major areas in economics and finance - Divides coverage between theoretical, empirical, and experimental findings - Makes the economics of risk and uncertainty accessible to scholars in fields outside economics

New Keynesian Economics/post Keynesian Alternatives

New Keynesian Economics/post Keynesian Alternatives
Title New Keynesian Economics/post Keynesian Alternatives PDF eBook
Author Roy Jeffrey Rotheim
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 410
Release 1998
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0415123887

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New Keynesian Economics has been the most significant development in economics in recent years. However, many modern thinkers have asked whether it actually builds upon or merely distorts Keynes' work. This unique volume provides the first full-scale critique of the New Keynesian school of thought. Within its pages, Post-Keynesian economists, including many from the United States, challenge New Keynesianism both on the grounds that it is not Keynesian, and does not provide an adequate account of our current economic problems. Sure to provoke much new debate and even controversy, New Keynesian Economicsseeks to reconcile these two seemingly intractable systems.

New Keynesian Economics / Post Keynesian Alternatives

New Keynesian Economics / Post Keynesian Alternatives
Title New Keynesian Economics / Post Keynesian Alternatives PDF eBook
Author Roy Rotheim
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 409
Release 2013-03-07
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1134804768

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The New Keynesian Economics has been the most significant development in economics in recent years. Does it actually build upon Keynes' work? In this volume, leading post Keynesian economists challenge New Keynesianism both on the grounds that it is not Keynesian, and does not provide an adequate account of our current economic problems.

Unmeasured Information and the Methodology of Social Scientific Inquiry

Unmeasured Information and the Methodology of Social Scientific Inquiry
Title Unmeasured Information and the Methodology of Social Scientific Inquiry PDF eBook
Author Donald W. Katzner
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 308
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1461516293

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I have three reasons for bringing out the ensuing collection of essays. First, since analysis without measurement (this is generally not the same thing as what is commonly referred to as "qualitative methods" or "qualitative research" in the social science literature) is a relatively new scholarly endeavor, I am striving to enhance its visibility by attracting a wider audience than what would normally be possible with single, narrowly-focused essays published in scat tered journals. Second, several of these essays may, in the minds of potential readers, appear to have been published in places that, if not obscure, are at least inconvenient to locate. Collecting them in a single anthology, then, will help to increase their accessibility. Third, I am trying to suggest, as strongly as I can, that analysis without measurement is a viable intellectual enterprise that ought to be taken seriously in social science. This last point will clearly be en hanced if the whole that follows turns out, as I hope and suspect it does, to be greater than the sum of its parts. All the same, each reader will have to judge for himself or herself the extent to which I have, through the present collection, successfully made the case for taking up analysis without measurement. The partitioning of these essays into two groups is somewhat, though by no means completely arbitrary.