A new model of the small open economy is constructed in which home producers operate in an international "customer market". Increased public expenditure on home output causes the home real interest rate to rise, boosting the velocity of money. It may also cause home firms to shave their...

For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory. Then, around 1990, my research turned to the study of economic systems and my development as an economist took on added dimensions. This biography will start with my student...

We study the effects of future tax and budgetary shocks in a non-monetary and possibly non-Ricardian economy. An (unanticipated) temporary labor tax cut to be effective on a given future date--a delayed "debt bomb"--causes at once a drop in the (unit) value placed on the firms' business asset,...

It seems to be taken for granted by many commentators that the sharp decline in prices of computers, telecommunications equipment and software resulting from the technological improvements in the information and communications technology (ICT)-producing sector is good for jobs and is a major...

Samuelson's "neoclassical synthesis" retrieved the theory of fiscal policy from Keynesian economics to the nonmonetary domain. But no agreement emerged over the right kind of "real" model to adopt. In the neo-Keynesian theory fashioned by Tobin and Modigliani, deficits were anti-growth and...

In open-economy macroeconomics there is a monetary model in the Keynesian tradition that is deemed serviceable for analyzing the short run and there is a nonmonetary neoclassical theory thought capable of handling the long run. But do the Keynesian and neoclassical models meet the challenges...