In the background was a shift from an excessive preoccupation by central banks with financial institutions to the other extreme of their becoming virtual econometrics factories .
在这样的背景下,央行从过分关注金融机构转向了另一个极端它们几乎成了计量经济学的工厂。
Economists now understand much more than keynes ever could about networks and complex interactions ( thanks to agent-based modelling ) , psychology ( thanks to behavioural economics ) and the real world ( thanks to econometrics ) .
Today this discipline is called econometrics , but then the field was just an assemblage of general concepts , too new to have a textbook or even a name .