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1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
Reproduktion New York Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780300244243
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030024424X
Content:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; i. Unsettled Issues; ii. The Culprits; iii. A Brief Sketch of the Book; Appendix I.1: Ideas, Vested Interests and Cycles; Part One History of Economic Thought; 1. The Mysteries of Money: A Short History; i. The Classical Dichotomy; ii. The Origins of Money; iii. The Value of Money; iv. Creditors and Debtors; v. The Origins of the Quantity Theory of Money; vi. The Demand for Money; vii. Money, the Great Deceiver; viii. Conclusion; 2. The Fight for the Gold Standard
Content:
I. Prelude to the Gold Standard: the British Recoinage Debate of the 1690sii. Nineteenth-century Monetary Debates: An Overview; iii. Bullionists versus the 'Real Bills' Doctrine; iv. Currency School versus Banking School; v. Bimetallism; vi. How Did the Gold Standard Actually Work?; 3. The Quantity Theory of Money: From History to Science; i. The Quantity Theory of Money: The Two Branches; ii. Fisher's Santa Claus; iii. Knut Wicksell's Credit Money version of the QTM; iv. Was Wicksell a Quantity Theorist?; v. Conclusion; Appendix 3.1: Fisher's Equation
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4. Theories of the Fertile and Barren Statei. Introduction; ii. The Fertile State of the Mercantilists; iii. The Wasteful State of the Political Economists; iv. The Victorian Fiscal Constitution; v. The Persistence of Mercantilism; vi. Conclusion; Part Two The Rise, Triumph and Fall of Keynes; 5. Keynes's Intervention; i. The Trouble with Money; ii. The Problem with Fiscal Policy; iii. The Macmillan Committee; iv. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money; v. Policy Implications; vi. Conclusion; Appendix 5.1: Contrast Between the Classical and Keynesian Models
Content:
Appendix 5.2: The Fiscal Multiplier6. The Keynesian Ascendancy; i. Keynesianism Ascendant; ii. Full Employment Keynesianism: 1945-60; iii. Growth Keynesianism: 1960-70; iv. Reasons for the Strength of the Boom; v. Stagflation Keynesianism: 1970-76; vi. Great Britain: the End of the Keynesian Road; 7. The Theory and Practice of Monetarism; i. Keynes and the Classics; ii. The Neo-classical Synthesis; iii. The Emergence of the Counter-orthodoxy; iv. Monetarism; v. The Monetarist Experiment: 1976-85; vi. Monetarism's Fiscal Legacy; vii. From Friedman to the New Consensus: 1985-2008
Content:
Viii. ConclusionAppendix 7.1: IS/LM, the Keynesian Teaching Tool; Appendix 7.2: The Modelling of Expectations; Appendix 7.3: The Central Bank Reaction Function; Part Three Macroeconomics in the Crash and After, 2007-; 8. The Disablement of Fiscal Policy; i. The Fiscal Crisis of the State; ii. The British Debate; iii. Austerity: A Comparative Assessment; iv. Conclusion; Appendix 8.1: Monetary Financing of the Deficit; 9. The New Monetarism; i. Pre-crash Monetary Orthodoxy; ii. Why Quantitative Easing?; iii. Quantitative Easing Programmes, 2008-16; iv. How was QE Meant to Work?; v. Assessment
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-460) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300240325
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300240320
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 0300240325
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300240320
Language:
English
Author information:
Skidelsky, Robert Jacob Alexander 1939-
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