Author:
Tobin, James, 1918-2002.
Edition Statement:1st MIT Press ed.
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1987.
Descriptionxiv, 508 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS: THEORY AND POLICY: Keynesian policies in theory and practice -- The future of Keynesian economics -- Fiscal and monetary policy under the Employment Act -- On the theoretical foundations of Keynesian economics (Comment on Lord Kaldor's 'Keynesian economics after fifty years') -- Patinkin on Keynes's monetary thought -- Fashionable challenges to Keynesian economics (Thurow's Dangerous Currents) -- REAGANOMICS: -- Reaganomics in retrospect -- The conservative counter-revolution in economic policy -- Reagan: recovery or reaction? -- The Reagan economic plan: supply-side, budget, and inflation -- Yes, Virginia, there are laffer curves -- Supply-side economics: what is it? Will it work? -- The fiscal revolution: disturbing prospects -- The monetary-fiscal mix in the United States -- The Reagan legacy -- FISCAL POLICIES: Does fiscal policy matter? -- Make jobs, cut deficits -- Unemployment, interest, deficits, and money -- Who is crowding out what? -- Against the balanced budget and tax limitation amendment -- Comment from an academic scribbler (on Democracy in Deficit) -- MONETARY AND FINANCIAL POLICIES: -- Monetary policy in an uncertain world -- Financial innovation and deregulation in perspective -- Monetarianism: an ebbing tide? -- Inflation, interest rates, and stock values -- On the efficiency of the financial system -- INFLATION, STAGFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND INCOMES POLICIES: -- Inflation -- There are three types of inflation: we have two -- Inflation: monetary and structural causes and cures -- Inflation control as social priority -- After disinflation, then what? -- Strategy for disinflation (Fellner on 'The state of monetary policy') -- The case for incomes policies -- Incentive-based incomes policies: foreword. -- Unemployment in the 1980s: macroeconomic diagnosis and prescription -- Okun on macroeconomic policy. -- POLITICAL ECONOMY: -- The political economy of the 1960s -- Economic stabilization policies in the United States -- Does the energy crisis endanger the American life-style? -- Energy strategy and macroeconomic policies -- Sowell on race and economics -- Considerations regarding taxation and inequality -- Running the economy with less unemployment and poverty (comments on the Bishops' pastoral letter on Catholic social teaching and the economy)
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies and index.
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