Toward a richer history of the representative agent: the contributions of Tjalling Koopmans and Paul Samuelson before Robert Lucas
The Representative Agent is nowadays a ubiquitous methodological tool used in modern economics. However its history is not fully developed. This thesis contributes to fill that gap by analyzing three separate, yet overlapping, contexts. The first chapter examines the rise of the representati...
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Universidade de São Paulo
2018
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| Online Access: | http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12140/tde-30112018-120424/ |