Description
The concept of rational expectations has played a hugely important role in economics over the years. Dealing with the origins and development of modern approaches to expectations in micro and macroeconomics, this book makes use of primary sources and previously unpublished material from such figures as Hicks, Hawtrey and Hart. The accounts of the '
Table of Contents
1. From Hayek to Vernon Smith: Prices, the Cobweb and Game Theory 2. The Hart Research Agenda: Information, Anticipation and the Firm 3. Expectations Research Projects: From Illinois to Carnegie Tech 4. Muth, Mills and Tinbergen 5. December 1959 and its Aftermath 6. Patinkin, Expectations and Chicago 7. Expectations and the Monetarist Counterrevolution
