I study how the general and specific details of a micro founded monetary framework affect the determination of policy when the government has limited commitment. The conduct of policy depends on the interaction between the incentive to smooth distortions intertemporally and a time-consistency...

and Summary -- I. A re-examination of the state of growth and stabilization theories -- 1. Second Thoughts on Growth Theory -- 2. The State of Macroeconomics -- 3. The Rich Country-Poor Country Problem: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries -- II. Innovations in financial markets and...

ubject of this book is the intersection between political science and macroeconomics. The central idea is the existence of a political economic equilibrium in which the government acts to dampen the business cycle. The election cycle implies that this equilibrium may be a cycle rather than a...