Success and failure of monetary policy since the 1950s / David Laidler -- What have economists learned over the past 50 years? / Lars E.O. Svensson -- Will monetary policy become more of a science? / Frederic S Mishkin -- Monetary policy, labour markets and fiscal policy / Olivier Blanchard.

Introduction; Theoretical foundations; Substance and purposes of economic activity; Money and credit; Debts and balance sheets; The creation of bank deposits; The creation of central bank deposits; The instruments of a central bank (monetary policy); The creation of sovereign securities (fiscal...

"The authors of this book argue that post-war fiscal and monetary policies in the U.S. are prone to more frequent and more destabilizing domestic and international financial crises. So, in the aftermath of the one that erupted in 2008, they propose that now we are sleepwalking into another,...

"Written in the spirit of the long time Yale Professor, James Tobin, who has held the view that monetary policy is not neutral, this volume provides an analysis of the different economic performances exhibited by the USA, the Euro-area, and Japan in the last decade. Through addressing the...

This book pulls together papers presented at a conference in honour of the 1981 Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science, the late James Tobin. Among the contributors are Olivier Blanchard, Edmund Phelps, Charles Goodhart and Marco Buti. One of the main aims of the conference was to discuss what...

Neoclassical theory and rational expectations : theoretical deficiencies -- Aggregation, money and Keynes epistemology -- Basics on money -- Money, finance and growth -- Structural stability in models and reality -- Inflation and unemployment -- Epilogue: picture and axiomatic structures