Author: Malcolm C. Sawyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780902169340
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Political Economy of the Phillips' Curve
Author: Malcolm C. Sawyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780902169340
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780902169340
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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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.
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.
Political Business Cycles
Author: Thomas D. Willett
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822308423
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
"A Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy book." Includes bibliographies and index.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822308423
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
"A Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy book." Includes bibliographies and index.
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
Political Economics
Author: James E. Alt
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520049833
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520049833
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Political Economy of Inflation
Author: Fred Hirsch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674685840
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674685840
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Role and Limits of Government
Author: Samuel Brittan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Capitalism, Conflict, and Inflation
Author: Bob Rowthorn
Publisher: London : Lawrence and Wishart
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher: London : Lawrence and Wishart
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Political Economy of Industrial Democracies
Author: Douglas A. Hibbs
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description