Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, 59)

✍ Scribed by K. Velupillai

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Jean-Paul Fitoussi needs no introduction as one of the world's foremost Macroeconomists of his generation. This celebration of his work includes contributions from Nobel Prize - winning economists Robert W. Clower and Robert Solow as well as Olivier Blanchard and leading economic theorist, Edmond Malinvaud.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 14
Preface and summary......Page 16
The consummate macroeconomist: Jean-Paul Fitoussi......Page 25
Price versus wage stickiness and the issue of persistence......Page 45
Contours of employment protection reform......Page 63
Trashing J.B. Say: the story of a mare's nest......Page 103
Assets, debts and interest in the EU and the US: the slump in Europe revisited......Page 113
The long swings in economic understanding......Page 130
The difficult dialogue between the development of macroeconomic theory and macroeconomic policy concerns......Page 143
What structuralism is and what errors and omissions it avoids in supply-side and RBC models......Page 160
What should we mean by ~growth policy?~......Page 178
Rational expectations equilibria: a recursion theoretic tutorial......Page 184
Author index......Page 204
Subject index......Page 208