Beyond the Representative Agent

Edited by Mauro Gallegati, Professor of Economics, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy and Alan Kirman, CAMS - EHESS, France

This challenging book extends standard economic theory to take into account the presence of heterogeneity among economic agents. It argues for an approach to economic analysis which regards the economy as an interactive system with heterogeneous agents and not simply a system which treats aggregates as some ‘representative’ individual.

“感兴趣的经济学家没有这个背景s material . . . will find a clearly presented introduction to modelling macroeconomics based on social interaction and heterogeneous agents. . .’
– Jenny Miner, Journal of Economic Literature