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RH351 Rhetoric of Economic Thought Transparencies Set 7 Modern formalism, Chicago, and current trends

RH351 Rhetoric of Economic Thought Transparencies Set 7 Modern formalism, Chicago, and current trends. Marshall on method . I never read mathematics now; in fact I have forgotten how to integrate a good many things… But I know I had a growing feeling in the later years

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RH351 Rhetoric of Economic Thought Transparencies Set 7 Modern formalism, Chicago, and current trends

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  1. RH351 Rhetoric of Economic Thought Transparencies Set 7 Modern formalism, Chicago, and current trends

  2. Marshall on method I never read mathematics now; in fact I have forgotten how to integrate a good many things… But I know I had a growing feeling in the later years of my work at the subject that a good mathematical theorem dealing with economic hypotheses was very unlikely to be good economics: and I went more and more on the rules – (1) Use mathematics as a shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them until you have done. (3) Translate into English. (4) Then illustrate by examples that are important to real life. (5) Burn the mathematics. (6) If you can’t succeed in (4), burn (3). Alfred Marshall 1842 - 1924

  3. Mathematical formalism in economics – important milestones Cournot, Researches into the Mathematical Principles of Wealth (1838) Walras, Elements of Pure Economics (1874) Edgeworth, Mathematical Psychics (1881) Hicks, Value and Capital (1939) Samuelson, Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947) Debreu, Theory of Value (1959)

  4. Mathematical Formalism in Economics -- Samuelson’s Foundations of Economic Analysis (1947)

  5. General Equilibrium Theory

  6. General Equilibrium Theory

  7. Mathematical Formalism in Economics -- Debreu’s’s Theory of Value (1959)

  8. Mathematical Formalism in Economics -- Arrow’s Social Choice and Individual Values (1951)

  9. Game Theory B b1 b2 a1 2,2 5,0 A a2 0,5 4,4 John Nash (1928 – ) John von Neumann (1903 – 1957 ) Oscar Morganstern (1902 – 1976)

  10. The “Chicago” school of economics Canonical texts: Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962) Gary Becker, The Economic Approach to Human Behavior (1978) In discussions of economic policy, "Chicago" stands for belief in the efficiency of the free market as a means of organizing resources, for skepticism about government affairs, and for emphasis on the quantity of money as a key factor in producing inflation. Gary Becker (1930 – ) Milton Friedman (1912 – 2006) In discussion of economic science, "Chicago" stands for an approach that takes seriously the use of economic theory as a tool for analyzing a startlingly wide range of concrete problems, rather than as an abstract mathematical structure of great beauty but little power; for an approach that insists on the empirical testing of theoretical generalizations and that rejects alike facts without theory and theory without facts.

  11. The Rise of Econometrics

  12. Financial Economics Pioneer in financial theory: Benjamin Graham, Security Analysis (1934) Modern portfolio theory and asset pricing: William Sharpe (1961, 1964) and John Lintner (1965) – Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Steven Ross (1973) – Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) Fisher Black and Myron Scholes (1973) – Option Pricing Model Financial markets and corporate finance: Franco Modigliani and Merton H. Miller (1958, 1963) – Corporate Financial Structure Eugene Fama (1970) --Efficient markets hypothesis

  13. Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (a.k.a. Nobel Prize in Economics) Some of the Winners … 1970 PAUL A SAMUELSON for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science. 1972 SIR JOHN R. HICKS and KENNETH J. ARROW for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory. 1976 MILTON FRIEDMAN for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy. 1983 GERARD DEBREU for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium. 2002 GARY S. BECKER for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behavior and interaction, including nonmarket behavior.

  14. Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (a.k.a. Nobel Prize in Economics) Some of the Winners … 1994 JOHN C. HARSANYI , JOHN F. NASH and REINHARD SELTEN for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games. 1995 ROBERT LUCAS for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy. 1998 AMARTYA SEN for his contributions to welfare economics. 2002 DANIEL KAHNEMAN for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty and VERNON L. SMITH, for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms

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