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D<sc>ow</sc> S., M<sc>ontagnoli</sc> A. and N<sc>apolitano</sc> O. Interest rates and convergence across Italian regions, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the evidence for economic convergence across Italian regions using trends in interest rate spreads and premia as indicators of regional...

The purpose of this article is to reexamine the notion of a Scottish tradition in political economy in the light of recent developments in the methodology of economics. Consideration is given to the concept of tradition itself, which puts the focus on approach to theorizing and the relationship...

This paper builds on a synthesis of endogenous money and liquidity preference theory to address the mechanisms by which monetary policy takes effect. We focus on the United Kingdom, under a range of institutional arrangements. Rather than operating solely by means of "the" exogenous interest...

The purpose of the paper is to explore the potential for using fuzzy logic to analyse economic decision-making under Keynesian uncertainty, and in particular in circumstances where variety of opinion is important. Fuzzy logic is shown to apply where expectations may differ because the nature of...

There is evidence of growing plurality in economic theory, alongside an increasing degree of homogenisation at the level of methodology. The purpose of this paper is to explore these developments in the light of the methodological literature on pluralism, regarding meaning of plurality, and the...

This paper considers the signalling aspect of monetary policy. We introduce a heuristic framework for the study of signal uncertainty, and use this to analyses the signal uncertainty implicit in the communications of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). Our findings suggest...