General disequilibrium

In

, and Jean-Pascal Benassy investigated how economic policy would impact an economy where prices did not adjust quickly to changes in supply and demand.^[1] The most notable case occurs when some external factor causes high levels of unemployment in an economy, leading to households consuming less and firms providing less employment, leading to a rationing of both goods and work hours.^{[citation needed]} Studies of general disequilibrium have been considered the "height of the neoclassical synthesis"^[2] and an immediate precursor to the new Keynesian economics that followed the decline of the synthesis.^[1]

Studies of general disequilibrium showed that the economy behaved differently depending on which markets (for example, the labor or the goods markets) were out of equilibrium. When both the goods and the labor market suffered from

See also

• Effective demand
• Disequilibrium (economics)

References

• Mankiw, N. Gregory, "A Quick Refresher Course in Macroeconomics." Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec., 1990), pp. 1645–1660.
• Mankiw, N. Gregory (2006) “The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 20(4): 29–46.
• Romer, David. "The New Keynesian Synthesis." The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Winter, 1993), pp. 5–22.