The present study aims to perceive an unacceptable unreality of a macro price mechanism: that is, the unreality that under any severe recession, deterioration of deflation or a consistent decrease in the rate of inflation will lead an economy to full employment equilibrium. This unreality...

This study challenges the prevailing theories of modern macroeconomics based on observations of a real economy and skepticism toward existing theories. Two main hypotheses are tested. First, the price mechanism is significantly incomplete in a Walrasian economy and does not function,...

Spain has the most serious and persistent unemployment problem in Europe, with an unemployment rate that reached 24.6 percent in early 1994. This paper explores the characteristics of this unemployment problem, its causes, and provides a brief discussion of recent labor market reform measures...

This paper is aimed at investigating the effects of government intervention through unemployment benefits on macroeconomic dynamics in an agent based decentralized matching framework. The major result is that the presence of such a public intervention in the economy stabilizes the aggregate...

This chapter examines the development of Keynes's monetary thought in the context of Britain's return to the gold standard (opposed by Keynes) in 1925 and his unsuccessful attempt to develop a theory of macroeconomic fluctuations in his Treatise on Money. Keynes, who had predicted that rejoining...