The paper begins with a consideration of the hypothesis that public sector employment is a means to reduce the general unemployment rate. It then takes up the proposition that subsidizing domestic investment is an effective way to reduce unemployment. The rest of the paper addresses some of the...

In what has been called the "classical" fiscal system, corporate profits are subject to heavy taxation on the ground that they can be siphoned off to the government without giving rise to costly disincentives. Corporations in turn minimize their profits tax liability for the benefit of their...

Economists disagree on what ails the economies of continental western Europe, which are widely perceived to be underperforming in terms of productivity and other metrics. Is it some deficiency in their economic system--in economic institutions or cultural attitudes? Is it some effect of their...

This book offers an excellent survey of various macroeconomic topics which feature prominently in the research agenda and have inspired both theoretical and policy debate. The book presents an authoritative and comprehensive summary and original critique of modern macroeconomic approaches by a...

[eng] Contemporary Keynesian theory sees the unemployment rate as driven by shocks to aggregate demand and ply, and attracted back to some equilibrium, or natural, rate. The latter is exogenous : either autonomous or, if path-dependent, predetermined. Fiscal stimuli to demand are expansionary...

[fre] Les économistes ne se sont penchés sur le rôle et la formation des anticipations qu'assez récemment. Keynes en a proposé une vision moderne, en insistant sur la non-objectivité des croyances et sur les interactions entre les anticipations des divers agents économiques. La doctrine...

[fre] La reconstruction des pays de l'Est exigera des investissements très probablement considérables. Cette note tente de répondre à la question de l'adéquation de l'épargne mondiale à ces besoins nouveaux. Une hausse des taux d'intérêts réels est à craindre pendant le processus «...

[eng] Why the American recovery of the years 1983 and 1984 did not produce recovery in Europe ? Why unemployment on this side of the Ocean has continued rising to reach in 1985 levels that have not been seen since the Great Depression ? Why finally the prospect of recovery which follows the fall...