Método, equilíbrio, expectativas e desemprego: o debate entre keynesianos e neoclássicos

• Autor(a) principal: Andrada, Alexandre Flávio Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9337
• topic: Keynes; Neoclássicos; Equilíbrio; Keynes, John Maynard -- 1883-1946; Pigou, Arthur Cecil -- 1877-1959 -- Theory of unemployment -- Critica e interpretacao; Desemprego; Escola neoclassica de economia; Neoclassical; Methodology; Equilibrium; Expectations; Unemployment; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA

The present work aims to provide a critique to the Walrasian approach in Macroeconomics. The debate between Keynesians (Keynes, New Keynesians and Post-Keynesians) and Neoclassical (Monetarists and New Classical) about method, expectations, and equilibrium is presented. Trying so to refuse Lucas s critique, which says that Keynes did not respect economic analyze straightjacket , i.e., selfish agents and clear markets. About unemployment a critical revision of General Theory s second chapter is made as well the concepts of natural rate and involuntary unemployment. The conclusions are: do not seem that Friedman s instrumentalist approach is the correct referential to Macroeconomics, rational expectations hypothesis do not explain men effective behavior, continuous market clear is tautological, and involuntary unemployment referred to a foreign economic agent individual characteristics situation. It is a Macroeconomic unemployment. At last while Microeconomics can avoid historicists considerations, Macroeconomics can not. Macroeconomics issues are related to historical moment, stage of institutions development and to a more human economic agent behavior