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-)classical theory that is relevant only to "depression economics"-refuting the interpretation offered by J. R. Hicks (1937) in his … depression economics continues to describe the mainstream's failure to engage in relevant monetary economics. …
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despite the fact that, initially, RE-NC economics appeared to be a mainly technical extension and refinement of Monetarism …
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The Financial Crisis of 2008, and the Great Recession in its wake, have shaken up macroeconomics. The paradigm of the "New" Neoclassical Synthesis, which seemed to provide a robust framework of analysis for short-run macro not long ago, fails to capture key elements of the recent crisis. This...
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The Keynesian theory aims at issues that authorities are able to interact with the economy, to face crises and to administrate dysfunctions on the economy. The Keynesian theory uses the demand side effect and not the supply side effect on the economy. The government and the authorities provide...
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Lucas (1972) was a paper that permanently changed the course of macroeconomics, even though its "money supply surprise" model lost its central place in the area within a decade because of empirical difficulties. However, Lucas's novel methodology, based on clearing markets and rational...
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The economic crisis that began in 2007 and still lingers has invited comparison with the Great Depression of the 1930s. It has also generated renewed interest in Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz's explanation of the latter as mainly the consequence of the Fed's failure as a lender of last...
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The current COVID-19 pandemic has attracted significant attention from epidemiologists and economists alike. This … differs from the 1918-19 Spanish Influenza pandemic, when academic economists hardly paid attention to its economic features …, despite its very high mortality toll. We examine the reasons for that, by contrasting the ways epidemiologists and economists …
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The KMG growth dynamics in Chiarella and Flaschel (2000) assume that wages, prices and quantities adjust sluggishly to disequilibria in labor and goods markets. This paper modifies the KMG model by introducing Steindlian features of capital accumulation and income distribution. The resulting...
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