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Why since at least two decades macroeconomic policies have been so active in the US and so passive in Europe? I contend that social norms have changed and that the new norms call for a greater degree of inequality. Then macroeconomic policies have to be active in the United States and passive in...
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Although the crisis emerged in the financial sector, its roots are deeper and lie in a structural change in income distribution that begun in the 1980s. The increase of inequality depressed aggregate demand by the middle-class, while the search for high returns by the wealthiest led to the...
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