Brief reading list - macro history of thought

Older controversies:
* Samuelson and Solow, "Analytical Aspects of Anti-Inflation Policy," 1960.
* Friedman, "The Role of Monetary Policy," 1968.
* Modigliani, "The Monetarist Controversy," 1977.
* Tobin, "Stabilization Policy Ten Years After," 1980.
* DeLong, "America's Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s," 1997.

State of play / new controversies / the evolving research agenda:
* Cochrane, "Shocks," 1994.
* Goodfriend and King, "The New Neoclassical Synthesis and the Role of Monetary Policy," 1997.
* Woodford, "Revolution and Evolution in Twentieth-Century Macroeconomics," 1999.
* Blanchard, "What do we know about macroeconomics that Fisher and Wicksell did not?" 2000.
* Lucas, "Macroeconomic Priorities," 2004.
* Rebelo, "Real Business Cycle Models: Past, Present, and Future," 2005.
* Fernandez-Villaverde and Rubio-Ramirez, "Our Research Agenda: Estimating DSGE Models," 2006.
* Akerlof, "The Missing Motivation in Macroeconomics," 2007.
* Blanchard, "The State of Macro," 2008.
* Gali, "The New Keynesian Approach to Monetary Policy Analysis: Lessons and New Directions," 2008.
* Svensson, "What have economists learned about monetary policy over the past 50 years?" 2008.
* Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan, "New Keynesian Models: Not Yet Useful," 2009.
* Woodford, "Convergence in Macroeconomics: Elements of the New Synthesis," AEJ 2009.
* Shimer, "Convergence in Macroeconomics: The Labor Wedge," AEJ 2009.

Some commentary on the profession and the financial crisis of 2007-08:
* Buiter, "The unfortunate uselessness of most state-of-the-art academic monetary economics," 2009.
* Krugman, "How did economists get it so wrong?" 2009.
* Cochrane, "How did Paul Krugman get it so wrong?" 2009.
* Athreya, "Economics is Hard: Don’t Let Bloggers Tell You Otherwise," 2010.
* Kocherlakota, "Some thoughts on the state of macro," 2010.
* Morley, "The emperor has no clothes," 2010.

Nobel lectures:
* Solow, "Growth Theory and After," 1987.
* Lucas, "Monetary Neutrality," 1995.
* Kydland, "Quantitative Aggregate Macroeconomics," 2004.
* Prescott, "The Transformation of Economic Policy and Research," 2004.
* Sims, "Statistical Modeling of Monetary Policy and its Effects," 2011.

Relevant JEP symposia:
* Winter 1993, "Keynesian Economics Today"
* Fall 1995, "The Monetary Transmission Mechanism"
* Winter 1996, "Computational Macroeconomics"
* Winter 1997, "The NAIRU"
* Spring 1999, "Business Cycles"
* Fall 2006, "Macroeconomic Lessons"
* Fall 2007, "Monetary Policy"
* Winter 2009, "The Credit Crunch"
* Winter 2010, "Financial Plumbing"
* Fall 2010, "Macro After the Crisis"
* Winter 2011, "Financial Regulation"

House Committee on Science and Technology
"Building a Science of Economics for the Real World" (2010)
* Testimony by Robert Solow
* Testimony by Sidney Winter
* TEstimony by Scott Page
* Testimony by David Colander
* Testimony by V.V. Chari