More than a sum of its parts: A Keynesian epistemology of statistics

The major theoretical insight of Keynes’ General Theory is that aggregate quantities describing the state of an economy as a whole are irreducible to arithmetic summations of individual decisions. This breaks with the logic of classical political economy and establishes macroeconomics as the study o...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicholas Werle
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Rosetti Internaţional 2011-05-01
Series:Journal of Philosophical Economics
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.jpe.ro/poze/articole/60.pdf