Employment Without Inflation

ISBN-13: 9781138509535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 396 str.

Eckhardt Wohlers; Benjamin Higgins

Opis

The world economy has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades and theoretical structures inherited from the 1930s through the 1950s, while retaining large elements of truth, are inadequate to deal with current problems

Spis treści

Preface
Part I: Introduction
1. From "Business Cycles" to Shifting Trade-Off Curves and Loops
Part II: Business Cycles and Theories to Explain Them:1825 1960
2. Unemployment or Inflation: Experience, Theory, and Policy 1825 1960
3. Underemployment Equilibrium, Secular Stagnation,and the "Knife Edge"
4. Interactions of Cycles and Trends
Part III: Postwar Economic Fluctuations as Shifting Trade-Off Curves and Loops
5. Concepts and Definitions
6. Unemployment and Inflation in Canada
7. Unemployment and Inflation in Australia
8. Unemployment and Inflation in the United States
9. Canada, Australia, and the United States:Similarities and Differences
10. The New Long-Term Unemployment
Part IV: Unemployment and Inflation since 1950:Hypotheses, Theories, Explanations
11. Unemployment and Inflation since 1950: Hypotheses and Theories
12. The Machine, the Structure, and the Game
Part V: Policy
13. The Approach to Policy
14. Designing Policy for the Late 1990s and Beyond
15. Why Not Full Employment?
16. Conclusions and Summary
Index

O autorze

Higgins, Benjamin