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The Labor Market and Employment (Handbook article). The labor market differs from typical markets in important ways. We find job competition and collective mechanisms that set wages and working conditions. Changes in employment bring about changes in wages and prices and entail political and...
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shocks contributed to the stagflation of the 1970s. Understanding what went wrong in the 1970s is the key to learning from … related to the oil market played a major role in causing both the major oil price increases of the 1970s and stagflation in … monetary policy makers, causing stagflation in the process. This paper reviews the evidence for these two main explanations …
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The steps in this paper are: (1) to recall the S = I relation and its position in macro-economics, (2) to observe how this equation is very relevant again with the renewed relunctance of banks to finance investments, (3) to point out that consumer durables are investments too, (4) to highlight...
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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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union. It is argued that wage pressure will not be diminished by forming the union, and the stagflation problem that lies at …
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The origins of stagflation and the possibility of its recurrence continue to be an important concern among policymakers … and in the popular press. It is common to associate the origins of the Great Stagflation of the 1970s with the two major … of the causal mechanism generating stagflation as is often thought. We provide a model that can explain the bulk of …
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none of the more recent oil price shocks has been associated with stagflation in the US economy, a major reason for the … stagflation of the 1970s. We show that this is not the case. …
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A win-win measure that will contribute to getting us out of the crisis is the abolition of the tax void in OECD countries. The tax void is explained with graphics and it is shown how it can be eliminated for free. Adjustment costs will lie in understanding and adaptation of administrative...
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The current macro-economic crisis can be diagnosed as repressed stagflation bursting into the open. The Obama … Administration and EU stimulus packages prevent economic collapse but do not tackle stagflation itself yet. Without proper measures …
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