The Friedman-Lucas Transition in Macroeconomics. A Structuralist Approach

Table of Contents

1. Methodology.?! Why?2. Standing on the edge: Lucas in the Chicago tradition3. Agents and structures4. Realism and instrumentalism along the Friedman-Lucas transition5. The end of economics?

Authors

Peter Galb�cs Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Methodology, Budapest Business School, Budapest, Hungary. Peter Galb�cs is professor of economics at the Institute of Economics and Methodology, Budapest Business School. His principal research interests cover the history and the methodology of modern business-cycle theories with a special emphasis on new classical macroeconomics and Robert E. Lucas's oeuvre. Recently he has published a monograph on the theory of new classical macroeconomics in which he made efforts to find the adequate scope of highly formalized and isolative new classical macro-models in practical-operative economic policy contexts.