Economic methodology in 2020: looking forward, looking back

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2021-01-07
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Ross, Don
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10.1080/1350178X.2020.1868769
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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.
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Economic methodology , Policy determination , Macroeconomic management , Structural modelling , Causal modelling , Welfare economics
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Ross, D. (2021) 'Economic methodology in 2020: looking forward, looking back', Journal of Economic Methodology, doi: 10.1080/1350178X.2020.1868769
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© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an item published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Economic Methodology on 07 Jan 2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2020.1868769