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v. 1 : partial perspectives ISBN 9780415668569
Description
This book represents the first of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction. It questions in a radical way the evolution of Keynesian macroeconomics after World War II and focuses on the limitations of the traditional Keynesian approach until it fell apart in the early 1970s, as well as the inadequacy of the new consensus in macroeconomics that emerged from the Monetarist critique of Keynesianism.
Professors Chiarella, Flaschel and Semmler investigate basic methodological issues, the pitfalls of the Rational Expectations School, important feedback channels in the tradition of Tobin's work, and theories of the wage-price spiral and the evidences for them. The book uses primarily partial approaches, the integration of which will be the subject of subsequent volumes. With its focus on Keynesian propagation mechanisms, the research in this book provides a unique alternative to the black-box shock-absorber approaches that dominate modern macroeconomics.
Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics should be of interest to students and researchers who want to look at alternatives to the mainstream macrodynamics that emerged from the Monetarist critique of Keynesianism.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Methodological Issues: Macro-Frequencies and Dimensions 1. Applicable Macro is Continuous-Time Macro 2. Walras' Law and the Role of Dimensional Analysis in Economics 3. Lucas (1975): Too Ad Hoc? Part 2: Model-Consistent Forecasts, Determinacy and the Rational Expectations School 4. Price Flexibility and Instability: Tobin (1975) Reconsidered 5. Stock Market Driven Multiplier Dynamics: A Reconsideration 6. Inflation and Perfect Foresight: Implications of Nonlinearity 7. Determinacy in the New-Keynesian Sticky Wage/Price Model Part 3: Macroeconomic Adjustment Processes: Theory 8. Disequilibrium Growth Theory with Insider-Outsider Effects 9. The Dominance of Keynesian Regimes in Nonwalrasian Growth 10. Steindlian Models of Growth and Stagnation 11. Investment of Firms in Capital and Productivity Growth 12. A Harrodian Knife-Edge Theorem in the Wage-Price Dynamics Part 4: Macroeconomic Adjustment Processes: Evidence 13. Estimating Interacting Wage-Price Dynamics 14. ES Calibration of Wage & Price Phillips Curves 15. Testing Nonlinear Wage & Price Phillips Curves for the USA 16. The Distributive Cycle with a Nonlinear Wage Phillips Curve Part 5: The Road Ahead: Neoclassical Syntheses and Beyond 17. Keynesian Business Cycle Analysis: Past, Present, Future
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v. 2 : integrated approaches ISBN 9780415668576
Description
This book represents the second of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction.
In this second volume the authors present a detailed analysis and comparison of two competing types of approaches to Keynesian macroeconomics, one that integrates goods, labour and financial markets, and another from the perspective of a conventional type of LM-analysis or interest-rate policy of the central bank. The authors employ rigorous dynamic macro-models of a descriptive and applicable nature, which will be of interest to all macroeconomists who use formal model-building in their investigations.
The research in this book with its focus on Keynesian propagation mechanisms provides a unique alternative to the black-box shock-absorber approaches that dominate modern macroeconomics. The main conclusion of the work is that policy makers need to reconsider Keynesian ideas, but in the modern form in which they are expressed in this volume.
Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics will be of interest to students and researchers who want to look at alternatives to the mainstream macrodynamics that emerged from the Monetarist critique of Keynesianism. This book will also engage central bankers and macroeconomic policy makers.
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Part I: Competing approaches to Keynesian macroeconomics 1. Representative households or principal-agent capitalism? 2. The two-class Pasinetti model from a neoclassical perspective 3. Expectations and the (un)importance of the real wage feedback channel Part II: Supply dynamics, demand-driven inflation and the distributive cycle 4. Viability and corridor stability in Keynesian supply driven growth 5. Wicksellian inflation pressure in Keynesian models of monetary growth 6. Interacting two-country business fluctuations Part III: The semistructural aggregate demand-aggregate supply model: theory and evidence 7. Distributive cycles, business fluctuations and the wage-led/profit-led debate 8. DAD-DAS: estimated convergence and the emergence of "complex dynamics" 9. International linkages in a Keynesian two-country model Part IV: The structural Keynes-Metzler-Goodwin model 10. Integrating macromodels of employment, price and inventory dynamics 11. Calibration of an unobservable inflation climate 12. A macroeconometric framework for the analysis of monetary policy Part V: Extensions 13. The dynamics of "natural" rates of growth and employment 14. High-order disequilibrium growth dynamics 15. AD-AS disequilibrium dynamics and endogenous growth Part VI: The road ahead: financial markets 16. Stabilizing an unstable economy and the choice of policy measures
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