> (does anyone in econ still 
>talk about the old concept of aggregate supply and demand?), 
 
Judging by the best selling textbooks yes. Most certainly. I haven't looked in the 
last couple of years, but the last time I did there still wasn't a really good text 
book that presented undergraduate macro entirely in terms of OLG or RBC models that 
still dealt with standard concerns about stabilization policy. Most undergraduate 
instructors still think stabilization policy is important (and since it is a very 
large part of the discussion of economic events in the press they are probably right) 
and want to teach it. The IS-LM-AD-AS model is still the best way to explain those 
concepts. - - Bill Dickens


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