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The 17 seminal essays by Robert J. Gordon collected here, including three previously unpublished works, offer views on the principal topics of macroeconomics - namely, growth, inflation, and unemployment. The author re-examines their salient points in a creative, accessible introduction that...
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A basic tenet of economic science is that productivity growth is the source of growth in real income per capita. But … our results raise doubts by creating a direct link between macro productivity growth and the micro evolution of the income … distribution enjoyed a growth rate of real wage and salary income equal to or above the average rate of economy-wide productivity …
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A basic tenet of economic science is that productivity growth is the source of growth in real income per capita. But … our results raise doubts by creating a direct link between macro productivity growth and the micro evolution of the income … distribution enjoyed a growth rate of real wage and salary income equal to or above the average rate of economy-wide productivity …
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The Phillips curve was init-ally formulated as a relationship between the rate of change and unemployment, yet what matters for stabilization policy is the rate of inflation, not the rate of wage change. This paper provides new estimates of Phillips curves for both prices and wages extending...
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This paper introduces a new approach to the empirical testing of the Lucas- Sargent-Wallace (LSW) "policy ineffectiveness proposition." Instead of testing that hypothesis in isolation from any plausible alternative, the paper develops a single empirical equation explaining price change that...
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This paper introduces a new approach to the empirical testing of the Lucas- Sargent-Wallace (LSW) "policy ineffectiveness proposition." Instead of testing that hypothesis in isolation from any plausible alternative, the paper develops a single empirical equation explaining price change that...
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