The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer

In this essay an attempt is made to provide a brief history of macroeconomics, along with an evaluation of present understanding towards this discipline. However one may assume that the field has envolved viz-a-viz two kinds of macroeconomists, and sinequanon two versions of macroeconomics. Those who consider it an engineering field, and those who construe it as a science. Engineers are aimed at problem solving. By contrast, the goal of scientists is to expound the very meaning of the world and its underpinnig functions per se. As a result, the macroeconomic research is varing between these two fields. In this context, one can observe that the macroeconomists of past decates were more inclined to constructing the analytic apparatus, propounding the theoretical principles, but on the contrary, the so called early macroeconomists were interested to act as engineers to solve the genuine problems of human beings in practice. Nonetheless, these apparatuses and essentials have been lethargic in their responses and impacts on pertaining issues of actual life. Thus, the dynamic and productive interaction between the two contesting views are required for the very existence of macroeconomics, to deal with various layers of human society. But despite the wide range of disparity between the two fields of the same discipline with different exegesis, in toto, one may presume that the smooth flourishing of macroeconomics could basically depends on pari passu with acceptance of its dualism in roles and functions.