Intro -- Introduction -- Part I - Ricardian and Non-Ricardian Economies -- 1 - The Ricardian Issue and the Pigou Effect -- 2 - Pigou Reconstructed: The Weil Model -- Part II - Interest, Prices, and Money -- 3 - Liquidity Effects -- 4 - Interest Rate Rules and Price Determinacy -- 5 - Global...

We compare the long-term output and current account effects of pension reforms that increase the retirement age with those of reforms that cut pension benefits, conditional on reforms achieving similar fiscal targets. We show the presence of a policy trade-off. Pension reforms that increase the...

Written during the Second World War against the background of the economic and political futility of the 1930s, this book deals with the changing role of government, and particularly fiscal policy as an instrument for regulating the national income and its distribution. Arguing that the war had...