Jean-Claude Arnault und die Schwedische Akademie Nach Missbrauchsvorwürfen gegen den Leiter eines Stockholmer Kulturzentrums ist die Vorsitzende der Schwedischen Akademie, Sara Danius, zurückgetreten. Sie lege auf Wunsch der Akademie ihr Amt mit sofortiger Wirkung nieder, teilte Danius mit. Die renommierte Akademie, die sie leitete, entscheidet jedes Jahr über die Vergabe des Literaturnobelpreises. Aus Protest gegen die Missbrauchsfälle hatten vier...
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In “modern” macroeconomics — Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium, New Synthesis, New Classical and New ‘Keynesian’ — variables are treated as if drawn from a known “data-generating process” that unfolds over time and on which we therefore have access to heaps of historical time-series. If we do not assume that we know the “data-generating process” – if we do not have the “true” model – the whole edifice collapses. And of course, it has to. Who really honestly believes that...
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