The 1970s witnessed a backlash against inflation. However, Japan's prolonged stagnation and the global economy's recent flirtation with deflation have revived the case for low inflation. Low inflation acts as grease in labor markets, helping the process of adjustment and lowering equilibrium...

George Soros' views on financial markets are complex and at odds with most of the economics profession, marking him as an intellectual iconoclast. This paper explores Soros' thinking about financial markets, with special emphasis on his views regarding the shortcomings of the current...

This paper uses the AS/AD framework to illustrate competing approaches to (i) the dynamics of short run price-output adjustment, and (ii) the employment effects of nominal wage reductions. Nominal wages affect equilibrium outcomes if AD is subject to Pigou or Fisher debt effects. The Kaleckian...

This paper provides a reappraisal of the monetarist counter-revolution. The paper introduces a novel distinction between "theoretical" and "empirical" monetarism. Theoretical monetarism is identified as a critique of the IS/LM transmission mechanism. However, the IS/LM can be readily modified to...

This paper presents an alternative macroeconomic framework for understanding labor markets and unemployment. The approach breaks with the standard model which maintains that unemployment is the result of high and rigid wages, and instead focuses on the structural characteristics of labor...