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Macroeconomics, Finance and Money

Essays in Honour of Philip Arestis

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  • © 2010

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  1. Giuseppe Fontana
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  2. John McCombie
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  3. Malcolm Sawyer
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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Monetary Policy, Central Banks and the ‘New Consensus in Macroeconomics’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Are the Macro Econometrics Models of the Federal Reserve Board, the Bank of Canada, and the Sveriges Riksbank consistent with the New Consensus Macroeconomics Model?

      • Jérôme Creel, Giuseppe Fontana
      Pages 3-18

    3. Arestis and Sawyer’s Criticism on the New Consensus Macroeconomics: Some Issues Related to Emerging Countries

      • Luiz Fernando de Paula, Fernando Ferrari-Filho
      Pages 19-34

    4. Inflation Targeting in Canada: Myth versus Reality

      • Mario Seccareccia, Marc Lavoie
      Pages 35-53

    5. Monetary Policy Challenges of the ECB Facing a Divergent Inflationary Process in the EMU Area

      • Georg Erber, Harald Hagemann
      Pages 54-74

    6. Macroeconomic Consensus and Political Economy Aspects of Monetary Policy Design

      • Georgios Chortareas
      Pages 75-90

    7. Central Bank Communication, Transparency and Interest Rate Volatility: Evidence from the USA

      • Iris Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal, Peter Howells
      Pages 91-108

  4. Finance, Crisis and Bubbles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Bubbles Lead to Long-term Instability

      • Elias Karakitsos
      Pages 179-195

    3. The Subprime Crisis: A Minskyan Phenomenon?

      • Elisabetta De Antoni
      Pages 196-208

    4. A Minsky Moment, or Not?

      • Korkut Ertürk, Gökcer Özgür
      Pages 209-223

    5. Does Financial Liberalization Help the Poor?

      • Asena Caner
      Pages 224-236

    6. Finance, Speculation and Stability: Post-Keynesian Policies for Modern Capitalism

      • Geoff Harcourt
      Pages 237-249
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About this book

This volume focuses on current issues of debate in the area of modern macroeconomics and money, written from (a broadly interpreted) post Keynesian perspective. The papers connect with Philip Arestis' contributions to macroeconomics and money, and pay tribute to his distinguished career.

About the authors

GIUSEPPE FONTANA is Professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Leeds, UK and Associate Professor at the University of Sannio, Italy. He has recently been awarded the first G.L.S. Shackle Prize, St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is a Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute (Bard College, USA), a Visiting Research Professor at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA), and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy (University of Cambridge, UK).
  
JOHN MCCOMBIE is Director of the Centre for Economic and Public Policy and Fellow in Economics, Downing College, University of Cambridge, UK. He has previously held positions in Economics departments at the University of Hull and the University of Melbourne. His research interests include the study of national and regional growth disparities, economic growth and the balance-of-payments constraint, and criticisms of the aggregate production function and conventional measures of the rate of technical progress. He has published widely in these areas.
 
MALCOLM SAWYER is Professor of Economics, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK. He was until recently Pro-Dean for Learning and Teaching for the Faculty of Business, University of Leeds, UK. He is managing editor of International Review of Applied Economics and on the editorial board of a range of journals. He has published widely in the areas of post Keynesian and Kaleckian economics, industrial economics and the UK economy. He has authored 11 books and edited 18, has published over 70 papers in refereed journals and contributed chapters over 100 books.

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