Mainstream economics is a term used to refer to widely-accepted economics as taught across prominent universities, and in contrast to heterodox economics. It has been associated with neoclassical economics and with the neoclassical synthesis, which combines neoclassical methods and Keynesian approach macroeconomics.
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