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This book dismantles the arguments used by policy makers to justify the abandonment of full employment as a valid goal of national governments. Bill Mitchell and Joan Muysken trace the theoretical analysis of the nature and causes of unemployment over the last 150 years and argue that the shift...
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This ambitious book seeks both to revive and revise the idea of 'functional finance'. Followers of this doctrine believe that government budgets should concentrate solely on their macroeconomic impact on the economy, rather than reflecting a concern for sound finance and budgetary discipline....
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This important new book brings together a significant body of new essays on some of the central economic problems facing governments, firms and individuals in the 1990s. Under the direction of Paul Davidson and Jan Kregel, an international group of distinguished economists provide new...
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Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the...
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State and Local Finances under Pressure explores the future of state and local government fiscal systems given the numerous pressures they face from economic, legal, technological, demographic and political forces. It explores how these multiple forces play out in terms of the changes state and...
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The Reality of Budgetary Reform in OECD Nations investigates the impacts and consequences of budgetary reform through a comparative assessment of advanced Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) democracies that have undertaken budget reforms over the past two to three decades
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Estevadeordal, Brian Frantz and Tam Robert Nguyen (eds), Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice, Chapter 1, Washington, DC …, Real Tax Revenue, and the Case for Inflationary Finance: Theory with an Application to Argentina', International Monetary … The Theory of Incentives: The Principal- Agent Model, Chapter 1, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 7 …
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Persistent unemployment is recognised as one of the main mechanisms of social and political exclusion. The Dynamics of Full Employment provides a new and fresh approach to the question of full employment in contemporary society. It offers an internationally comparative, interdisciplinary...
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. Whilst there is no 'best practice', TLM theory does provide normative and analytical principles that can be generalised for …
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Collecting Nobel Laureate William S. Vickrey's articles on macroeconomic theory and policy written towards the end of …
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