Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policy

Essays in Honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-32336-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Jean-Paul Fitoussi needs no introduction as one of the world's foremost Macroeconomists of his generation. This celebration of his work includes contributions from Nobel Prize - winning economists Robert W. Clower and Robert Solow as well as Olivier Blanchard and leading economic theorist, Edmond Malinvaud.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Velupillai, K. Vela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Preface and summary 2The consummate macroeconomist: Jean-Paul Fitoussi 3 Price versus wage stickiness and the issue of persistence 4 Contours of employment protection reform 5 Trashing J.B. Say: the story of a mare’s nest 6 Assets, debts and interest in the EU and the US: the slump in Europe revisited 7 The long swings in economic understanding 8 The difficult dialogue between the development of macroeconomic theory and macroeconomic policy concerns 9 What structuralism is – and what errors and omissions it avoids in supply-side and RBC models 10 What should we mean by “growth policy?” 11 Rational expectations equilibria: a recursion theoretic tutorial

Über Autor(innen)

K. Vela Velupillai is John E. Cairnes Professor of Economics at the National University of Ireland, Galway and also holds a Chair at the University of Trento, Italy, as a ‘Professore di Chiara Fama’. He is also a Senior Visiting Professor at the Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India.