Teaching Aggregate Demand and Supply Models

Aggregate demand and supply

This paper is part of a broader project that provides a microfoundation to the General Theory of J. M. Keynes. I call this project “old Keynesian economics” to distinguish it from new-Keynesian economics, a theory that is based on the idea that to make sense of Keynes we must assume that prices are sticky. I describe a multi-good model in which I interpret the definitions of aggregate demand an...

Criticisms of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply :

The Aggregate Demand – Aggregate Supply framework has dominated intermediate macroeconomics textbooks since the 1980s. However, there have been 2007). In spite of these criticisms, the ADAS framework had continued to dominate the textbooks, with little or no response to these criticisms. This paper reviews the main criticisms of the ADAS framework, and then focuses on Gregory Mankiw's presentat...

A Dynamic Model of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply

Heterotic Models of Aggregate Demand

A common theme in the theory of demand aggregation is that market demand can acquire properties which are not always individually present among the agents who make up that market, a phenomenon we call heterosis in this paper. This paper focusses on the well known result that with a suitable distribution of demand behavior (arising perhaps from the underlying distribution of preferences), market...

Telecommunications and travel demand and supply: Aggregate structural equation models for the US

Disaggregate studies of the impacts of telecommunications applications (e.g. telecommuting) on travel have generally found a net substitution effect. However, such studies have all been short-term and small-scale, and there is reason to believe that when more indirect and longer-term effects are accounted for, complementarity is the likely outcome. At least two aggregate studies have focused on...