Sei es durch Bankenkrisen oder Inflation, Schuldenbremse oder Zinsdebatten: Das Thema Geldpolitik ist in der Tagespolitik angekommen. Längst hat sich die Einsicht verbreitet, dass Geld kein neutrales Tauschmittel ist, sondern auch ein Instrument politischer Herrschaft. Gleichwohl fehlt noch...

The aim of this paper is to recount the ebbs and flows of Keynesianism over the history of macroeconomics. The bulk of the paper consists of a discussion of the main episodes of the unfolding of macroeconomics (Keynesian macroeconomics, monetarism, new classical macroeconomics, real business...

Keynesian economics dominated economic thought and macroeconomic policy-making in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the diffusion of Keynesian economics has been uneven. In this paper, we compare the spread of Keynesian economics in two continental European countries: Belgium and Italy. We focus on...