El pensamiento que ha dominado unilateralmente la ciencia económica desde hace más de cinco décadas se ha constituido en el centro de un intenso debate con respecto a su validez y coherencia conceptual y empírica, que ha puesto en evidencia las limitantes del paradigma dominante para...

This book brings together a number of contributions in growth theory and macroeconomic dynamics that reflect recent developments and the ongoing debate over the relative merits of neo-classical and endogenous growth models. It focuses on three important aspects that have been receiving...

Intro -- Editorial -- Abstracts -- 1 Work and Leisure in the United States and Europe: Why So Different? -- 2 Job Loss, Job Finding, and Unemployment in the U.S. Economy over the Past Fifty Years -- 3 The Rise in Firm-Level Volatility: Causes and Consequences -- 4 Monetary Policy Under...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- List of Diagrams -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface, Preliminaries and Acknowledgements -- 1. Macroeconomy versus Macroeconomics? -- 2. Accelerator-Multiplier: Stabbing the Knife-Edge in the Back? -- 3. Classical Dichotomies -- 4. Growth Theories: Old, New...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Macroeconomics -- 2. Macroeconomic Thought during the Long Nineteenth Century -- 3. Gold Standard, Reparations, Mania, Crash, and Depression -- 4. Maynard Ascendant -- 5. Keynesian Growth, Cycles, and Crisis -- 6. The Counterrevolution -- 7. Finance -- 8. The...