“Beyond DSGE Models: Toward an Empirically Based Macroeconomics” by Peter Howitt Alan Kirman Axel Leijonhufvud Perry Mehrling and David Colander June 2008 MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE ECONOMICS DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 08-08 DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT 05753 http://www.middlebury.edu/~econ