Expectations

Part I: Guggenheim Prize Lecture.- Part II: Expectations and Economic Thought: Classics and Moderns.- Part III: Expectations and Applications: Economic Models and Case Studies.

Warren Young is a Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His academic work focuses on the history of modern economics, and energy economics. His publications include Interpreting Mr Keynes (1987); Harrod and his Trade Cycle Group (1989); Oxford Economics and Oxford Economists (1993, with F. Lee); Atomic Energy Costing (1998); Economics, Economists, and Expectations (2004, with R. Leeson and W. Darity); Real Business Cycles in Economics (2014), and a survey series on the history of growth theory for Macroeconomic Dynamics (with S. Spear). He has edited IS-LM and Modern Macroeconomics (Springer, 2000, with B. Zilberfarb), and two conference volumes (with A. Arnon) for Springer. He has been a Visiting Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, Deakin University, Carnegie-Mellon University, and ArizonaState University. He was a consultant to the Archives Project, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Arie Arnon is a Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Economics, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. His  academic work focuses on macroeconomics, monetary theory and policy, and history of economic thought. His publications include Thomas Tooke: Pioneer of Monetary Theory (1991), and Monetary Theory and Policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell: Money, Credit and the Economy (2011). He has edited two conference volumes with W.Young: The Open Economy Macromodel (Springer, 2002); and Perspectives on Keynesian Economics (Springer, 2011; co-editor with W. Young and J. Weinblatt). He has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford, the University of California Berkeley, SOAS (London) and the University of Pennsylvania. He was a Senior Economist at the Research Department of the Bank of Israel and a consultant to the WorldBank.


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