[PDF] Full Employment And Price Stability eBook

Author : William Spencer Vickrey
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
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'This collection of Vickrey's writings is primarily concerned with macro policy issues, and thus includes some of his lesser-known work. It is a collection that Bill would have wanted to get out to the public because he felt that a solid macro policy was necessary to create a foundation of equity and efficiency before one can even start talking about micro policy.' - From the preface by David Colander, Middlebury College, US Collecting Nobel Laureate William S. Vickrey's articles on macroeconomic theory and policy written towards the end of his career, this volume demonstrates his enduring commitment to full employment and price stability, and his rejection of conventional macroeconomic theorizing. William Vickrey never lost hope that sensible macroeconomic policy could be understood and implemented, a faith inspired by his humanistic vision of a better world for all and his belief that common sense would ultimately prevail. Advocating sensible economic policies, this collection will offer much of value to heterodox and orthodox economists, graduate economics students and also policymakers.

Author : L. Randall Wray
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
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By showing that the basic assumptions if mainstream macroeconomics were and are flawed, the author aims to convince the reader that full employment and price stability are fully compatible goals in the modern world.

Author : Paul Winston McCracken
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Economic policy
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In 1975 a group of independent experts was appointed to study and report on the alternative policies OECD Member countries might follow to achieve full employment and price stability. This booklet contains the summary of their report, which concentrates on the experience and problems of the major OECD countries, while making generalisations for the 'OECD area' as a whole.

Author : Paul Davidson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
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The economic performance of many countries deteriorated significantly in the 1990s. This book offers policy prescriptions from the post-Keynesian perspective aimed at achieving full employment without inflation. It examines issues such as speculation, financial markets, and the Euro and its role.

Author : Michael D. Bordo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226066959

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Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation of resources, thereby raising productivity. This volume focuses on understanding the causes of the Great Inflation of the 1970s and ’80s, which saw rising inflation in many nations, and which propelled interest rates across the developing world into the double digits. In the decades since, the immediate cause of the period’s rise in inflation has been the subject of considerable debate. Among the areas of contention are the role of monetary policy in driving inflation and the implications this had both for policy design and for evaluating the performance of those who set the policy. Here, contributors map monetary policy from the 1960s to the present, shedding light on the ways in which the lessons of the Great Inflation were absorbed and applied to today’s global and increasingly complex economic environment.

Author : Robert Pollin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262017571

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Economist Robert Pollin argues that the United States needs to try to implement full employment and how it can help the economy.

Author : William Mitchell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1848441428

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This book by William Mitchell and Joan Muysken is both important and timely. It deals with the issue of the abandonment of full employment as an objective of economic policy in the OECD countries. It argues persuasively that macroeconomic policy has been restrictive over the recent, and not so recent past, and has produced substantial open and disguised unemployment. But the authors show how a job guarantee policy can enable workers, who would otherwise be unemployed, to earn a wage and not depend on welfare support. If such a policy is fully supported by appropriate fiscal and monetary programmes, it can create full employment with price stability, which the authors label as a Non-Accelerating-Inflation-Buffer Employment Ratio (NAIBER). This book is essential reading for any one wishing to understand how we can return to full employment as the normal state of affairs. Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge, UK This book dismantles the arguments used by policy makers to justify the abandonment of full employment as a valid goal of national governments. Bill Mitchell and Joan Muysken trace the theoretical analysis of the nature and causes of unemployment over the last 150 years and argue that the shift from involuntary to natural rate conceptions of unemployment since the 1960s has driven an ideological backlash against Keynesian policy interventions. The authors contend that neo-liberal governments now consider unemployment to be an individual problem rather than a reflection of systemic policy failure and that they are content to use unemployment as a policy instrument to control inflation and coerce the unemployed with work tests and compliance programmes rather than provide sufficient employment. They present a comprehensive theoretical and empirical critique of this policy approach, with a refreshing new framework for understanding modern monetary economies. The authors show that the reinstatement of full employment with price stability is a viable policy goal that can be achieved by activist fiscal policy through the introduction of a Job Guarantee. Full Employment Abandoned will appeal to graduate and postgraduate students and researchers of economics and politics with an interest in macroeconomic policy and the labour market, particularly unemployment and neo-liberal policy frameworks.