This paper introduces a new framework to characterize the diversity of public policies and interventions to spur investment and growth. Going beyond ideological cleavages on this topic, we argue that two orthogonal features determine how much interventions depart fundamentally from neutral...

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,...

This paper addresses several key issues regarding the recent Great Crisis 2007-2009. The main ones are: was the financial crisis predictable by standard economic models? If not, are these models lacking of forecasting capabilities, or it is not a task of economic models to predict external...