Current Thinking on Fiscal Policy

2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-20249-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

This book develops current thinking on fiscal policy, emphasizing the role which fiscal policy can play in macroeconomic policy and challenging the view that macroeconomic policy should rely on monetary policy alone. This book offers theoretical insights in defence of fiscal policy as a valid macroeconomic instrument.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sawyer, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; J.Creel & M.Sawyer Fiscal Policy Within the 'New consensus in Macroeconomics' Framework; P.Arestis Fiscal Policy in Today's Endogenous Money World; G.Fontana Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis: The Crucial Role of Fiscal Policy; P.Arestis & E.De Antoni The Continuing Relevance of Fiscal Policy; M.Sawyer The Intertemporal Budget Constraint and the Sustainability of Budget Deficits; P.Arestis & M.Sawyer Automatic Stabilisation, Discretionary Policy and the Stability Pact; J.Creel & F.Saraceno Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Keynesian Stock-flow Consistent Model; E.Le Heron

Über Autor(innen)

PHILIP ARESTIS University Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Economics and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK; Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Utah, US; Senior Scholar, Levy Economics Institute, New York, US; Visiting Professor, University of Leeds, UK; Visiting Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK

ELISABETTA DE ANTONI Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Trento, Italy
GIUSEPPE FONTANA Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds, UK; Associate Professor, University of Sannio, Italy; Associate Member, Centre for Economic and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, UK

EDWIN LE HERON Sciences Po Bordeaux, France

FRANCESCO SARACENO Sciences Po Bordeaux, France