Should the financial crisis inspire normative revision?

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 399-418

  Ross, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

2008 2009 financial crisis; Behavioral economics; Global structural shift; Normative reforms; Standard macroeconomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650109815     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: 14699427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1350178X.2010.525038     Document Type: Article

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