The Evolution of Macroeconomic Theory and Policy

• Main Author: Dadkhah, Kamran. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Economics.; Macroeconomics.; Economics > Methodology.; Economics/Management Science.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics.; Methodology and the History of Economic Thought.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77008-4

The Great Depression of the 1930s gave birth to a branch of economics that in 1933 Ragnar Frisch christened macroeconomics. Over the decades that followed up to the present, the interactions of economic events, economic policy, and macroeconomic theory have created a fascinating story integral to th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Keynes and the Great Depression
• 2. The Post-War Economic Order
• 3. Laying the Foundations of Keynesian Economics
• 4. Keynesian Economics in Action
• 5. Macroeconomics of an Open Economy
• 6. The Collapse of Post-War International Economic Order
• 7. Money, Monetary Policy, and Monetarism
• 8. The New Classical Revolt Against Activist Economic Policy
• 9. Business Cycles: Evidence, Theory, and Policy
• 10. Government Budget and Fiscal Policy
• 11. The Regan-Thatcher Revolution: the Age of Hayek and Schumpeter
• 12. Macroeconomics of Globalized Economies
• 13. The Financial Crisis of 2008.