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Conversations on growth, stability and trade : an historical perspective
Snowdon, Brian - 2002
1. Introduction : the world economy in historical perspective -- 2. Economic growth and development : a very long-run view -- 3. Growth theories : old and new -- 4. Managing aggregate economic instability : from Keynes to Lucas -- 5. International economic integration in the Second Global Age.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420073
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Growth and economic development : essays in honour of A.P. Thirlwall
Thirlwall, Anthony P.; McCombie, John S. L.; Arestis, Philip - 2006
demonstrates the considerable influence that his work on economic theory has had on his contemporaries, and the profession as a … / Mark Roberts -- Endogenous growth theory : a partial critique / Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer -- The nature of economic … growth and the neoclassical approach. : more questions than answers? / John McCombie -- On the core of macroeconomic theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850558
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Behavioural macroeconomics
McDonald, Ian Martin - 2012
. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald (2004), 'Well-being Over Time in Britain and the USA', Journal of Public Economics, 88 (7 …, D. and Tversky, A. (1979), 'Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk', Econometrica, 46, 263-91. -- Keynes, J ….M. (1936), The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Prices, London: Macmillan. -- Knabe, A., Rätzel, S., Schöb, R. and …
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Financial instability and economic security after the great recession
Whalen, Charles Joseph (contributor) - 2011
This timely book rethinks economic theory and policy by addressing the problem of economic instability and the need to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850887
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Skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2010
. This paper proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology that fits with cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011635
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World finance and economic stability : selected essays of James Tobin
Tobin, James - 2003
Nobel Prize winner James Tobin has made outstanding contributions to modern macroeconomics. In this final collection of his work he examines the economic policies of the United States and its relations with other major economies after 1990. In James Tobin's view, the welfare of populations...
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Head-content or headcount? : Short-term skilled labour movements as a source of growth
Tani, Massimiliano (contributor) - 2006
This paper contributes a theoretical model to study the effects of short-term movements of skilled labour on a country's economic growth. As traditional migration models emphasise the long-term effects of migration on factor endowments, they typically omit the analysis of gross labour flows....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003331854
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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920009
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The evolution of inflation and unemployment : explaining the roaring nineties
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2007
This paper analyses the relation between US inflation and unemployment from the perspective of "frictional growth," a phenomenon arising from the interplay between growth and frictions. In particular, we examine the interaction between money growth (on the one hand) and various real and nominal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586564
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Social attitudes and economic development : an epidemiological approach
Algan, Yann (contributor); Cahuc, Pierre (contributor) - 2007
In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591473