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Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic and Monetary Union: Theorectical Underpinnings and Challenges

Arestis, Philip; Sawyer, Malcolm - EconWPA - 2003

Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic and Monetary Union: Theoretical Underpinnings and Challenges Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer, The Levy Economics Institute and Leeds University Abstract This paper presents two issues: first, an effort to decipher the type of economic analysis and...

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Macroeconomic co-ordination as an economic policy concept - opportunities and obstacles in the EMU

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - EconWPA - 2004

This paper traces the euro zone’s inadequate macroeconomic performance in recent years back to the predominance of a restrictive macroeconomic policy mix based on a ‘new monetarist’ approach to economic policy. An approach based on a (post-)Keynesian analysis is presented as a growth and...

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Guidelines for sustained growth in the EU? The concept and consequences of the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines

Hein, Eckhard; Niechoj, Torsten - EconWPA - 2005

The Broad Economic Policy Guidelines contain the answers of the European Commission and the governments of the EU-member countries to the European growth and employment problems. These guidelines have been the major EU-economic policy concept for around ten years now. They can be seen as a...

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Macroeconomic co-ordination as an economic policy concept – opportunities and obstacles in the EMU

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - EconWPA - 2004

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Leitlinien für ein dauerhaftes Wachstum in der EU? Konzept und Wirkung der Grundzüge der Wirtschaftspolitik

Hein, Eckhard; Niechoj, Torsten - EconWPA - 2005

The Broad Economic Policy Guidelines contain the answers of the European Com-mission and the EU-governments to the growth and employment problems in the EU. These guidelines have been the EU-economic policy concept for ten years now, but this concept has not been able to generate sustained...

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Money, Interest, and Capital Accumulation in Karl Marx’s

Hein, Eckhard - EconWPA - 2005

. Money as a social representative of value, therefore, is introduced at the very beginning of Marx’s microeconomics. Marx …’s rejection of Ricardo’s interpretation of Say’s Law requires that money as a means of circulation and as a means of payment is … realisation of profits for the capitalist class as a whole requires money advances, which have to increase by means of rising …

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How Long Can the U.S. Consumers Carry the economy on Their Shoulders?

Arestis, Philip; Karakitsos, Elias - EconWPA - 2003

The consumer has been on a tightrope since the bursting of the "new economy" bubble, as losses in equity markets have been partly offset by gains in real estate and fiscal support and mortgage refinancing have partly offset increased consumer cautiousness. The consumer will remain on a tightrope...

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The conditions for a Sustainable U.S. Recovery: The Role of Investment

Arestis, Philip; Karakitsos, Elias - EconWPA - 2003

The anemic U.S. economic recovery and the threat of a double-dip recession stem from the weakness of investment, due to ….e., the all-time-high indebtedness in the face of falling asset prices) are preventing investment from picking up and are …

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The Case for Fiscal Policy

Arestis, Philip; Sawyer, Malcolm - EconWPA - 2003

excess of private savings over investment at the desired level of economic activity. The paper outlines the "functional …

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Reinventing Fiscal Policy

Arestis, Philip; Sawyer, Malcolm - EconWPA - 2003

Recent developments in macroeconomic policy, in terms of both theory and practice, have elevated monetary policy while downgrading fiscal policy. Monetary policy has focused on the setting of interest rates as the key policy instrument, along with the adoption of inflation targets and the use of...

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