The first article published by Franco Modigliani has become one of the basic texts of the modern Keynesian economics. It formalized the model (or at least one model) implicit in the General Theory. Modigliani argued that the characteristics Keynesian conclusions are based primarily on the...

The first article published by Franco Modigliani has become one of the basic texts of the modern Keynesian economics. It formalized the model (or at least one model) implicit in the General Theory. Modigliani argued that the characteristics Keynesian conclusions are based primarily on the...

The first article published by Franco Modigliani has become one of the basic texts of the modern Keynesian economics. It formalized the model (or at least one model) implicit in the General Theory. Modigliani argued that the characteristics Keynesian conclusions are based primarily on the...

The paper surveys the neoclassical theory of growth. As a preliminary, the meaning of the adjective "neoclassical" is discussed. The basic model is then sketched, and the conditions ensuring a stationary state are illustrated. The issue of the convergence to a stationary state (and that of the...

This manifesto challenges a pernicious orthodoxy that has gripped Europe's policy makers. It is that demand- and supply-side policies must have different aims, that a limited number of supply-side policies are to be devoted to fighting unemployment, and that demand management (and particularly...

This manifesto challenges a pernicious orthodoxy that has gripped Europe's policy makers. It is that demand- and supply-side policies must have different aims, that a limited number of supply-side policies are to be devoted to fighting unemployment, and that demand management (and particularly...

This manifesto challenges a pernicious orthodoxy that has gripped Europe's policy makers. It is that demand- and supply-side policies must have different aims, that a limited number of supply-side policies are to be devoted to fighting unemployment, and that demand management (and particularly...

In recent years, a case has been made against the use of fiscal policy for stabilization purposes. Real business cycle theory, which portrays the economy as being in global intertemporal equilibrium, concludes that fiscal policy is useless, while the Ricardian equivalence hypothesis concludes...