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Book SynopsisPost-Keynesian economics is moving beyond criticism of mainstream economics and is focusing on providing a positive alternative to orthodoxy. This book gathers carefully selected and original papers by a number of distinguished post-Keynesian writers from Europe and the Americas and converges on the principles that should guide post-Keynesian economic policy in the 21st century.
The policy prescriptions examined and discussed in this book include the New Consensus, inflation targeting, fiscal and monetary policies to name but a few. It puts forth a coherent approach to policy and is divided into three components: monetary policy, fiscal policy and effective demand, and international issues, including discussion of currency boards, dollarization and the EMU. The contributors aim to emphasize the post-Keynesian ability to provide renewed principles of economic policy in contrast with the failures of the mainstream approach.
Scholars and researchers of economics and political economy at all levels will find much to engage them within this book.
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Claude Gnos and Louis-Philippe Rochon PART I: MONETARY POLICY 1. Interest Rates and the Real Economy Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer 2. Banking Behaviour and the Brazilian Economy After the End of the Real Plan: A Post-Keynesian Approach Luiz Fernando De Paula and Antonio J. Alves, Jr 3. Is There an Active Role for Monetary Policy in the Endogenous Money Approach? Giuseppe Fontana and Alfonso Palacio-Vera 4. The Post-Keynesian Consensus, the New Consensus and Endogenous Money Virginie Monvoisin and Louis-Philippe Rochon 5. A Post-Keynesian Framework for Monetary Policy: Why Interest Rate Operating Procedures Are Not Enough Thomas I. Palley PART II: FISCAL POLICY AND EFFECTIVE DEMAND 6. What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Can We Muddle Through Without Fiscal Policy? Stephanie Kelton and L. Randall Wray 7. Views on Long-term Investment and Finance: Keynes’s Heterodoxy Co-Opted Omar F. Hamouda 8. The Absolute Paradox of Economic Policy in Contemporary Capitalism Alain Parguez 9. Fiscal Policy, Government Intervention and Endogenous Money: Are Chartalist and Circuitist Theories Complementary? Corinne Pastoret 10. Monetary Policy, Labour Market Institutions and US Macroeconomic Performance During the 1990s Mark Setterfield PART III: REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES 11. A Fully Coherent Post-Keynesian Model of Currency Boards Marc Lavoie 12. The Post-Keynesian Case for No Exchange Rates Basil J. Moore 13. EMU and EU Enlargement: Lessons and Perspectives Sergio Rossi Index
