This book is motivated by the disagreement among Monetarist, Keynesian, and New Classical economists about the short-term determinants of output, unemployment, and inflation. It exposes the reader to a synthesis modeling approach which allows the derivation of the opposing theories as special cases from a single general framework, so that the macroeconomic controversy is reduced to tests of alternative statistical hypotheses. While similar studies have been conducted for the U.S. economy, this study is the first to consider an open economy and "let the data speak" about the determinants of...