“Keynes is dead; dynamic programming; Keynes is still dead. That’s the way Stanford graduate economics students recently summed up what they had learned in their core graduate macroeconomics course.”

—  David Colander

David Colander, "The Keynesian Method, Complexity, and the Training of Economists" (2009)
2000s

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