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Pluralism in macroeconomics? Economics at NUI Galway contribution to major Berlin conference

Oct 25 2016 Posted: 12:00 IST

Dr. Srinivas Raghavendra, economics at NUI Galway presented his paper “Unpaid labour and distribution of income” at the 20^th Annual Conference of the Research Network on Macroeconomics and Macroeconomics Policies (FMM) held in Berlin in October 2016 under the theme “Towards Pluralism in Macroeconomics?”

The aim of the conference was to assess the current state of macroeconomics: key questions included:

What has changed in the two decades since the foundation of the network?
Is there greater pluralism in theoretical approaches?
What are the improvements in modelling the economy in orthodox and heterodox approaches?
What is the explanatory power and empirical content of macroeconomics today?

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