Abstract This article contributes to the literature on complexity and macroeconomic models by exploring analytical relationship tensions between complex phenomena macroeconomics. By evaluating properties of organised complexity, this suggests alternative strategies for analysing macroeconomy. Drawing F. A. Hayek’s notion I examine how its causal relate criteria assumptions that contemporary use...

Experimental macroeconomics is a subfield of experimental economics that makes use of controlled laboratory methods to understand aggregate economic phenomena and to test the specific assumptions and predictions of macroeconomic models. Surveys of experimental macroeconomics are found in Ochs (1995), Duffy (1998) and Ricciuti (2004). Macroeconomic topics that have been studied in the laboratory...

Growth is an important topic in macroeconomics, which represents a large fraction of the literature and seeks to explain some facts in the long-term behavior of economies, complementing the also large literature about business cycle. These two topics are so relevant because macroeconomics is mostly worried about the first and second moments of macroeconomic activity (this is, development and cy...