This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It explores the road from the dominance of Keynesian ideas to those of New Classical Macroeconomics (NCM) toward...

A Short Post-communist Economic History of Emerging Europe -- Pre-crisis Central Banking -- Bubbles Everywhere (the 2000s)Under the Clouds of the Subprime Crisis (July 2007 – September 2008)The Lehman Tsunami (September – October 2008) -- The “Rescue Team” and Rescue Package (October –...

Einleitung -- Die Regierung Biden und die kopernikanische Wende -- Modern Monetary Theory als Teil der Volkswirtschaftslehre -- Was ist Wirtschaftspolitik? -- Wirtschaftspolitik auf Grundlage der MMT -- Ausblick.

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 --...

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...

Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Theoretical Foundation of Monetary Policy from Islamic Perspectives -- Chapter 2. Monetary Economics, Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Model for an ‘Islamic’ Economy --...

Part I: Exchange Contracts and the Walrasian Paradigm -- 1. The Paradigm in the Philosophy of Science -- 2. The Walrasian Paradigm in Contemporary Economics -- 3. Basic Elements of an Exchange-Systematized Walrasian Paradigm -- 4. First Potential Applications of an Exchange-Systematized...

1. Why Another Book about Money? -- 2. Imagine a World Without Money -- 3. A Brief History of Money -- 4. Saving, Lending, Borrowing, and the Banking Sector -- 5. Central Banks, Monetary Policy, and the Economy -- 6. The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 and the Great Recession -- 7. Economic Growth...