Macroeconomists as Revolutionary Schoolmates

Abstract

I must start by alerting the reader that this is not an ordinary book review of Michel De Vroey’s A History of Macroeconomics from Keynes to Lucas and Beyond (I am writing one for the European Journal for the History of Economic Thought). It is instead a comment on two specific, and rather crucial, elements of De Vroey’s analysis and a broader reflection on the common depiction of the evolution of macroeconomics produced by practitioners and adopted by some historians. In such accounts, it is...