Macroeconomic paradigms and economic policy : from the Great Depression to the Great Recession /

The recent financial crisis has demonstrated the dangers of ignoring the factors that led to previous crises, and the effectiveness of the policies designed to deal with them. Over time, these macroeconomic policies have evolved, oscillating between state intervention and a free-market approach. Fol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Acocella, Nicola, 1939- (Author), Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni, 1969- (Author), Hughes Hallett, Andrew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • The dawn of the Keynesian Age
  • The Phillips curve menu
  • The pro-market counterattack: powerless economic policies
  • Rethinking stabilization policies: good policies or good luck?
  • The great recession and beyond
  • Central banking
  • Fiscal regimes and fiscal policies
  • Further policy challenges
  • Conflicts and cooperation in the labor markets
  • Fixed exchange rates: the age of tempered liberalism
  • Free to float: the age of neoliberalism
  • A fragile European construction: the perils of incomplete coordination
  • Taking stock: the end of a ride or the start of a new one?.