What Accept Microfoundations E'er Done For Us?

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In my previous post on microfoundations I said I disagreed amongst Paul Krugman’s disputation that “So every bit I run into it, the whole microfoundations get is based on i predictive success roughly 35 years ago; at that spot guide keep been no pregnant payoffs since”. I should nation why I disagree. talked close the onetime inwards an before post, which focused on a United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland of Britain in addition to Northern Republic of Ireland specific puzzle inwards the belatedly 1980s that I detect hard to address without an intertemporal consumption perspective. However I also intend likewise rigid an attachment to a really basic intertemporal persuasion has blinded macro to roughly critical events inwards the concluding decade or so. (See John Muellbauer post that a microfoundations purist grade – that this is the solely valid agency to produce macro – is a mistake. The interesting questions are inwards between. Can the microfoundations approach encompass all kinds of heterogeneity, or volition such models lose their attractiveness inwards their complexity? Does sticking amongst simple, illustration agent macro impart roughly form of bias? Does a microfoundations approach discourage investigation of the to a greater extent than ‘difficult’ but to a greater extent than of import issues? Might both these questions advise a link betwixt likewise uncomplicated a micro based persuasion in addition to a failure to sympathise what was going on before the fiscal crash? Are alternatives to microfoundations modelling methodologically coherent? Is empirical prove e'er going to last rigid in addition to clear plenty to trump internal consistency? These are hard in addition to oftentimes quite subtle questions that whatsoever simplistic for in addition to against microfoundations combat volition only obscure.