ABSTRACT

I appraise some areas of recent achievement in economic methodology by identifying four topics on which there will likely be heavy exogenously generated demand for methodological innovation over coming years, and asking what foundations have been set for this work. The topics in question are economists’ role in policy formation, macroeconomic management, causal and structural modeling of economic processes, and welfare with non-standard and dynamic utility.

中文翻译：

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2020年的经济方法论：前瞻，回顾

抽象的

我通过确定四个主题来评估最近在经济方法学领域取得的一些成就，这些主题在未来几年内可能会对方法学创新产生大量外生需求，并询问为这项工作奠定了哪些基础。所讨论的主题是经济学家在政策形成，宏观经济管理，经济过程的因果和结构模型以及具有非标准和动态效用的福利中的作用。