Contrasts are drawn between mainstream macroeconomics (with the 'New Consensus in Macroeconomics' taken as the current manifestation) and heterodox macroeconomics and their abilities to comprehend the financial crises and world wide recession of 2007 – 09 for macroeconomic paradigms is...

The relationship between military expenditure and growth is studied taking into account potential nonlinearities and robustness issues in the specification of the econometric models used. Using cross-country growth regressions and the widely used Feder-Ram model, the partial correlation between...

This paper reviews the various explanations for inflation and the relation between inflation and money aggregates. Two analytical distinctions are useful to understand different explanations of inflationary processes of all types. First, and more importantly, theories can be seen as cost-push or...

La conjoncture historique actuelle est marquee par le rôle de plus en plus central de la connaissance dans l'organisation de la production et la dynamique du progres technique. Cette evolution souleve plusieurs interrogati ons theoriques, en particulier celle de comprendre si la diffusion et le...

The purpose of the paper is to highlight the key characteristics of the Fiscal Theory for the Cost Level (FTCL) and to compare them to the postulates of the monetarism. Comparative analysis confirms the thesis that only the versions of this theory in which the trajectory of the cost level...

This paper analyses financial crises from a theoretical point of view. For this it reviews what different schools of economic thought have to say about financial crises. It examines first the approaches that regard financial crises as a disturbing factor of a generally stable real economy...

Krugman has recently revitalized IS-LM with a number of succinct analytical pieces on his blog. The reverberations were remarkable. Economists, however, are known often not grasp the full content of their own and, a fortiori, of others’ models. This happened to Keynes in the days of high...

Based on the savings glut argument, proposed a new point of view that unlike the neoclassical and Keynesian, and on this basis, shows the current plight of the Chinese economy is heavily reliant on the root cause of the investment. Since 2008 the world financial crisis, reflections on...

Tavaly ünnepelte a közgazdász-társadalom Milton Friedman Nobel-díjas közgazdász születésének századik évfordulóját. A jubileumi megemlékezésnek különös aktualitást ad, hogy a 2008 óta tartó pénzügyi világválság hátterében ismét fellobbant a 20. századi...