Inflation, unemployment and money : interpretations of the Phillips curve

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Inflation, unemployment and money : interpretations of the Phillips curve

Bruno Jossa, Marco Musella

Edward Elgar, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-157) and index

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Description

This comprehensive book presents an original reconstruction of the different interpretations of the Phillips curve. The authors demonstrate through an in-depth analysis how it is possible to find non-neoclassical foundations in the trade-off between inflation and unemployment. The debate is presented from a historical perspective which charts the evolution of the Phillips curve from a non-neoclassical perspective, taking account of post Keynesian literature.In the first part of the book the authors focus on the origins of the Phillips curve and they critically analyse Richard Lipsey's interpretation and approach to the Phillips curve. They then explore the neoclassical and monetarist interpretation, paying special attention to the evolution of monetarism and the Keynesian critique of this approach. The Kaleckian, Keynesian and Marxist interpretations of the Phillips trade-off are then presented. Here the authors show how the relationship between inflation, unemployment and money described in these approaches accurately reflects the fundamental features of today's capitalist economies. In the final section a new Phillips curve is constructed, taking into account the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment and the hysteresis of it. Inflation, Unemployment and Money will be of interest to macroeconomists, post Keynesians and monetary and financial economists.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface 1. The Origins: Phillips's and Lipsey's Contribution 2. Keynesians and Monetarists on the Phillips Curve 3. Neoclassical Interpretations of the Phillips Curve and the Microfoundations of Macroeconomics 4. The Phillips Curve and Stagflation 5. Unorthodox Interpretations of the Phillips Curve 6. Phillips Curve, Hysteresis and Keynesian Theory Bibliography Index

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