Résumé : Contenu et Méthodes

In 2001-2002 the topic of the course is controversies over involuntary unemployment in macroeconomics from Keynes to New Keynesians. Seminal articles from the following authors will be read and discussed: Keynes, Hicks, Patinkin, Clower, Barro and Grossman, Friedman, Lucas, Shapiro and Stiglitz, Solow and Lindbeck and Snower.
The course will take a seminar form, with each class being devoted to reading a seminal paper. Students will be expected to have read it in advance. Most of the class time will be devoted to clarifying the paper under discus-sion and confronting it with the others.