Monetary Issues: Monetary Unions: Between International Trade and National Sovereignty -- Why a Monetary Union?- Monetary Policy in a Monetary Union: Lessons from Simple Models -- Institutions and Monetary Policy -- Fiscal Issues: Government Deficits, Transfers and Debt -- Fiscal Policies in a...

This book, written by an international team of economists, develops concrete, country specific alternatives to inflation targeting, the dominant policy framework of central bank policy that focuses on keeping inflation in the low single digits to the virtual exclusion of other key goals such as...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Trends in Growth since the GFC -- Chapter 3. Credit, Employment and the Current Account -- Chapter 4. Capital Formation and Foreign Investment -- Chapter 5. Inflation and Monetary Developments -- Chapter 6. Policy and Analyses Chapter -- 7. Reflexive, not...

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of the Fourth Edition -- Chapter 2. National Income Accounts -- Chapter 3. Budget Deficits, Trade Deficits and Global Capital Flows: The National Savings Identity -- Chapter 4. Aggregate Demand: Setting the Stage for Demand-Side Stabilization -- Chapter 5....

1. Introduction -- Part I. The “Party Period” Before the Crisis -- 2. The Costs and Benefits for Joining a Common Currency with Emphasis on Weaker Member States: The Pre-crisis Debate -- 3. Greece Before the Crisis: The Critical Years in Domestic Politics -- 4. IMF and EU Reports on Greece...

1:-On the History of Monetary Policy -- 2.:-An Alternative Model: Stabilizing the Long-Term Interest Rate -- 3:-New Instruments for Monetary Policy -- 4:-Paths to the Fixed-Rate Model – How, Where, and When? -- 5:-Some Supplements -- 6:-On the Governance Structure of Fully Independent Central...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 How is money created? -- Chapter 3 The history of money creation -- Chapter 4 An appraisal of the financial monetary system -- Chapter 5 How does the sovereign money system work? -- Chapter 6 Advantages and disadvantages of the sovereign money system --...

Inter-State Inequalities - Scope and Limits of Public Policy -- Macroeconomic Foundation of Functioning of the IMF: An Evolutionary Journey -- Indian Official Statistical System -- A Note on Unemployment and its Measurement in India -- Addressing Visible Inequalities: The Minimum Policy Agenda...

1 -- Introduction: Strange Bedfellows and the Rise of Modern Money Theory -- 2. MMT Basics and the Sustainability of Money Financed Deficits -- 3. Institutional Specificity and the Limited Policy Relevance of Modern Money Theory -- 4. The Role of the Dollar as an International Currency and Its...