Current thinking on fiscal policy

Author(s)

• Creel, Jérôme
• Sawyer, Malcolm C. (Malcolm Charles)

Bibliographic Information

Current thinking on fiscal policy

edited by Jérôme Creel and Malcolm Sawyer

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book develops current thinking on fiscal policy, emphasizing the role which fiscal policy can play in macroeconomic policy and challenging the view that macroeconomic policy should rely on monetary policy alone. This book offers theoretical insights in defence of fiscal policy as a valid macroeconomic instrument.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• J.Creel & M.Sawyer Fiscal Policy Within the 'New consensus in Macroeconomics' Framework
• P.Arestis Fiscal Policy in Today's Endogenous Money World
• G.Fontana Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis: The Crucial Role of Fiscal Policy
• P.Arestis & E.De Antoni The Continuing Relevance of Fiscal Policy
• M.Sawyer The Intertemporal Budget Constraint and the Sustainability of Budget Deficits
• P.Arestis & M.Sawyer Automatic Stabilisation, Discretionary Policy and the Stability Pact
• J.Creel & F.Saraceno Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Keynesian Stock-flow Consistent Model
• E.Le Heron

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Details

• NCID: BA88646404
• ISBN:
  • 9780230202498
• LCCN: 2008029921
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 182 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 339.5/2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Fiscal policy