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Macroeconomics and History A very quick look

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Macroeconomics and History

A very quick look

Post WW II –We are all Keynesians

Milton Friedman

Monetarist Critique

Permanent Income Hypothesis

Stagflation And Its Causes

Fast forward to the 1970’s

Deficit Financed

Robert Lucas Rational Expectations Revolution

Robert Barro

Are Government Bonds Net Wealth

JPE 1974

Thomas Sargent

Monetary Policy doesn’t matter.

Only surprises matter.

This is the world in which I started graduate school in Econ in fall 1976.