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We introduce an approach for the empirical study of the quantity theory of money (QTM) that is novel both with respect … the QTM holds for low inflation as well as for high inflation. We discuss how our findings relate to monetarism generally …
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development of today's mainstream, stochastic, but essentially Walrasian, macroeconomic theory, rooted in his explicit deployment … of econometric theory in the analysis of forward-looking maximising behaviour in 1957, and in his later work on the …
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Specific ideas about the Fisher relation between real and nominal interest rates and more general ideas about the nature of the central bank's duty to support the financial system in times of crisis were important to the Monetarist re-assessment of the causes of the Great Depression and what...
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monetarism emerged, the background factors that facilitated that emergence, and the relation of monetarism both to ideology and …
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Adam Smith's ideas about the invisible hand, was a major contribution to an ongoing tradition in monetary theory in whose …
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In 2008, governments in many countries embarked on large fiscal expenditure programmes, with the intention to support the economy and prevent a more serious recession. In this study, the overall impact of a substantial increase in fiscal expenditure is considered by providing a novel analysis of...
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governments' failures in economic policy throughout this period. Reflections on Monetarism brings together his most important …
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Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism is a major contribution to the continuing debate on macroeconomic policy … since his 1992 collection, Reflections on Monetarism. It challenges several "conventional wisdoms" about UK macroeconomic …-making acknowledges the primacy of monetary policy and would be better termed "output gap monetarism". In short, Keynes, the Keynesians …
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The Fisher relation played a very different role in debates surrounding the Great Depression and the more recent Great Recession. This paper explores some of these differences, and suggests an explanation for them derived from a sketch of the idea's evolution between the two events, thus...
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