Author: Robert Leeson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phillips curve
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A.W.H. Phillips and the Political Economy of the Inflation-unemployment Trade-off
Author: Robert Leeson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phillips curve
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Phillips curve
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Political Economy of the Inflation-unemployment Trade-off
Author: Robert Leeson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business cycles
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business cycles
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve Myth
Author: James Forder
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199683654
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book reconsiders the role of the Phillips curve in macroeconomic analysis in the first twenty years following the famous work by A. W. H. Phillips, after whom it is named. It argues that the story conventionally told is entirely misleading. In that story, Phillips made a great breakthrough but his work led to a view that inflationary policy could be used systematically to maintain low unemployment, and that it was only after the work of Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps about a decade after Phillips' that this view was rejected. On the contrary, a detailed analysis of the literature of the times shows that the idea of a negative relation between wage change and unemployment - supposedly Phillips' discovery - was commonplace in the 1950s, as were the arguments attributed to Friedman and Phelps by the conventional story. And, perhaps most importantly, there is scarcely any sign of the idea of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff promoting inflationary policy, either in the theoretical literature or in actual policymaking. The book demonstrates and identifies a number of main strands of the actual thinking of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s on the question of the determination of inflation and its relation to other variables. The result is not only a rejection of the Phillips curve story as it has been told, and a reassessment of the understanding of the economists of those years of macroeconomics, but also the construction of an alternative, and historically more authentic account, of the economic theory of those times. A notable outcome is that the economic theory of the time was not nearly so naive as it has been portrayed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199683654
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book reconsiders the role of the Phillips curve in macroeconomic analysis in the first twenty years following the famous work by A. W. H. Phillips, after whom it is named. It argues that the story conventionally told is entirely misleading. In that story, Phillips made a great breakthrough but his work led to a view that inflationary policy could be used systematically to maintain low unemployment, and that it was only after the work of Milton Friedman and Edmund Phelps about a decade after Phillips' that this view was rejected. On the contrary, a detailed analysis of the literature of the times shows that the idea of a negative relation between wage change and unemployment - supposedly Phillips' discovery - was commonplace in the 1950s, as were the arguments attributed to Friedman and Phelps by the conventional story. And, perhaps most importantly, there is scarcely any sign of the idea of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff promoting inflationary policy, either in the theoretical literature or in actual policymaking. The book demonstrates and identifies a number of main strands of the actual thinking of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s on the question of the determination of inflation and its relation to other variables. The result is not only a rejection of the Phillips curve story as it has been told, and a reassessment of the understanding of the economists of those years of macroeconomics, but also the construction of an alternative, and historically more authentic account, of the economic theory of those times. A notable outcome is that the economic theory of the time was not nearly so naive as it has been portrayed.
The Emergence of the Phillips Curve as a Policy Menu
Author: David E. W. Laidler
Publisher: London, Ont. : Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario
ISBN:
Category : Inflation (Finance)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher: London, Ont. : Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario
ISBN:
Category : Inflation (Finance)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Inflation, Unemployment and Money
Author: Bruno Jossa
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This comprehensive book presents an original reconstruction of the different interpretations of the Phillips curve. The authors demonstrate through an in-depth analysis how it is possible to find non-neoclassical foundations in the trade-off between inflation and unemployment. The debate is presented from a historical perspective which charts the evolution of the Phillips curve from a non-neoclassical perspective, taking account of post Keynesian literature. In the first part of the book the authors focus on the origins of the Phillips curve and they critically analyse Richard Lipsey's interpretation and approach to the Phillips curve. They then explore the neoclassical and monetarist interpretation, paying special attention to the evolution of monetarism and the Keynesian critique of this approach. The Kaleckian, Keynesian and Marxist interpretations of the Phillips trade-off are then presented. Here the authors show how the relationship between inflation, unemployment and money described in these approaches accurately reflects the fundamental features of today's capitalist economies. In the final section a new Phillips curve is constructed, taking into account the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment and the hysteresis of it. Inflation, Unemployment and Money will be of interest to macroeconomists, post Keynesians and monetary and financial economists.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This comprehensive book presents an original reconstruction of the different interpretations of the Phillips curve. The authors demonstrate through an in-depth analysis how it is possible to find non-neoclassical foundations in the trade-off between inflation and unemployment. The debate is presented from a historical perspective which charts the evolution of the Phillips curve from a non-neoclassical perspective, taking account of post Keynesian literature. In the first part of the book the authors focus on the origins of the Phillips curve and they critically analyse Richard Lipsey's interpretation and approach to the Phillips curve. They then explore the neoclassical and monetarist interpretation, paying special attention to the evolution of monetarism and the Keynesian critique of this approach. The Kaleckian, Keynesian and Marxist interpretations of the Phillips trade-off are then presented. Here the authors show how the relationship between inflation, unemployment and money described in these approaches accurately reflects the fundamental features of today's capitalist economies. In the final section a new Phillips curve is constructed, taking into account the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment and the hysteresis of it. Inflation, Unemployment and Money will be of interest to macroeconomists, post Keynesians and monetary and financial economists.
The Inflation-unemployment Trade-off
Author: Anthony M. Santomero
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment (Economic theory)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment (Economic theory)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
A. W. H. Phillips: Collected Works in Contemporary Perspective
Author: Alban William Housego Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521571359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Virtually all of contemporary macroeconomics is underpinned by a Phillips curve of one variety or another; yet most of this literature displays a curious neglect of the theoretical dynamic stabilisation perspective provided by A. W. H. Phillips. This 2000 volume collected for the first time the major work of one of the great economists, integrating Phillips's empirical work with his theoretical contribution. In addition to twelve substantive chapters, twenty-nine economists including Lawrence Klein, James Meade, Thomas Sargent, Peter Phillips, David Hendry, William Baumol, Richard Lipsey and Geoffrey Harcourt highlight and interpret Phillips's ongoing influence. This volume also contains six of Phillips's previously unpublished essays, four of which were thought to have been lost. The fifth such essay (Phillips's second empirical Phillips curve) was previously an informal working paper of which few copies circulated, and the sixth essay is a forerunner of the Lucas Critique written by Phillips shortly before his death.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521571359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Virtually all of contemporary macroeconomics is underpinned by a Phillips curve of one variety or another; yet most of this literature displays a curious neglect of the theoretical dynamic stabilisation perspective provided by A. W. H. Phillips. This 2000 volume collected for the first time the major work of one of the great economists, integrating Phillips's empirical work with his theoretical contribution. In addition to twelve substantive chapters, twenty-nine economists including Lawrence Klein, James Meade, Thomas Sargent, Peter Phillips, David Hendry, William Baumol, Richard Lipsey and Geoffrey Harcourt highlight and interpret Phillips's ongoing influence. This volume also contains six of Phillips's previously unpublished essays, four of which were thought to have been lost. The fifth such essay (Phillips's second empirical Phillips curve) was previously an informal working paper of which few copies circulated, and the sixth essay is a forerunner of the Lucas Critique written by Phillips shortly before his death.
The Inflation-unemployment Trade-off at Low Inflation
Author: Pierpaolo Benigno
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inflation (Finance)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Wage setters take into account the future consequences of their current wage choices in the presence of downward nominal wage rigidities. Several interesting implications arise. First, a closed-form solution for a long-run Phillips curve relates average unemployment to average wage inflation; the curve is virtually vertical for high inflation rates but becomes flatter as inflation declines. Second, macroeconomic volatility shifts the Phillips curve outward, implying that stabilization policies can play an important role in shaping the trade-off. Third, nominal wages tend to be endogenously rigid also upward, at low inflation. Fourth, when inflation decreases, volatility of unemployment increases whereas the volatility of inflation decreases: this implies a long-run trade-off also between the volatility of unemployment and that of wage inflation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inflation (Finance)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Wage setters take into account the future consequences of their current wage choices in the presence of downward nominal wage rigidities. Several interesting implications arise. First, a closed-form solution for a long-run Phillips curve relates average unemployment to average wage inflation; the curve is virtually vertical for high inflation rates but becomes flatter as inflation declines. Second, macroeconomic volatility shifts the Phillips curve outward, implying that stabilization policies can play an important role in shaping the trade-off. Third, nominal wages tend to be endogenously rigid also upward, at low inflation. Fourth, when inflation decreases, volatility of unemployment increases whereas the volatility of inflation decreases: this implies a long-run trade-off also between the volatility of unemployment and that of wage inflation.
Political Economy of the Phillips Curve
Author: Malcolm C. Sawyer
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
ISBN: 9781852781361
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This important new book is a critical appraisal of the Phillips Curve, its role within the economics profession and its influence on economic policy making. It is argued that the Phillips Curve has never been well based on either theoretical and empirical grounds. Professor Sawyer questions the reasons for the popularity of the Phillips Curve which has exercised a major influence in discussions of inflation and unemployment. He explores the purposes served by the Phillips Curve both within the economics profession and amongst a wider public.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
ISBN: 9781852781361
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This important new book is a critical appraisal of the Phillips Curve, its role within the economics profession and its influence on economic policy making. It is argued that the Phillips Curve has never been well based on either theoretical and empirical grounds. Professor Sawyer questions the reasons for the popularity of the Phillips Curve which has exercised a major influence in discussions of inflation and unemployment. He explores the purposes served by the Phillips Curve both within the economics profession and amongst a wider public.
David Laidler's Contributions to Economics
Author: R. Leeson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230248411
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book provides a collection of essays by leading economists in honour of David Laidler's contributions to the field of macroeconomics, with important essays on central banking, monetary policy implementation, inflation targeting, monetary theory, monetary framework debates, and the mathematical theory of banking.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230248411
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book provides a collection of essays by leading economists in honour of David Laidler's contributions to the field of macroeconomics, with important essays on central banking, monetary policy implementation, inflation targeting, monetary theory, monetary framework debates, and the mathematical theory of banking.