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The debate over the source and propagation of economic fluctuations rages as fiercely today as it did 50 years ago in the aftermath of Keynes’s The General Theory and in the midst of the Great Depression. Today, as then, there are two schools of thought. The classical school emphasizes the optimization of private economic actors, the adjustment of relative prices to equate supply and demand, and the efficiency of unfettered markets. The Keynesian school believes that understanding economic fluctuations requires not just studying the intricacies of general equilibrium, but also appreciating the possibility of market failure on a grand scale.
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 1989), pp. 79–89.
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Mankiw, N.G. (1995). Real Business Cycles: A New Keynesian Perspective. In: Estrin, S., Marin, A. (eds) Essential Readings in Economics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24002-9_18
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