Год выпуска: 2006 Издательство: Страниц: 276 ISBN: 1843767244
Описание
Post-Keynesian economics is moving beyond criticism of mainstream economics and is focusing on providing a positive alternative to orthodoxy. This book gathers carefully selected and original papers by a number of distinguished post-Keynesian writers from Europe and the Americas and converges on the principles that should guide post-Keynesian economic policy in the 21st century. The policy prescriptions examined and discussed in this book include the New Consensus, inflation targeting, fiscal and monetary policies to name but a few. It puts forth a coherent approach to policy and is divided into three components: monetary policy, fiscal policy and effective demand, and international issues, including discussion of currency boards, dollarization and the EMU. The contributors emphasize the post-Keynesian ability to provide renewed principles of economic policy in contrast with the failures of mainstream writers' advice. Scholars and researchers of economics and political economy...