The Current State of Macroeconomics

This work sets out to show the state of macroeconomics at the end of the 20th century from three main perspectives: methodology, theory and economic policy. It is built on extensive conversations with some of the world’s leading macroeconomists. These are based on wide questionnaires, covering jointly almost all the topics of macroeconomic theory, as well as questions of methodology, real economy, and even academic systems and future lines of research. Some of the questions have been put to all the respondents or many of them, with the aim of bringing out their different positions. References about authors and themes are also provided.

Author Biography

CARLOS USABIAGA IBANEZ was born in Seville, Spain in 1965. He graduated in economics in 1988 at the University of Seville, and obtained his doctorate from the same university in 1992, receiving the award of ‘Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado’. Since 1988 he has been lecturing in macroeconomics at the University of Seville, where since 1995 he has been professor of economics. He has published widely on topics related to macroeconomics and modern economic thought, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and Northwestern University.