Policies for prosperity: essays in a keynesian made

James Tobin (ed.)

Policies for prosperity: essays in a keynesian made - Susex Wheatsheaf Books 1987 - 508p.

THIS IS A major new collection of James Tobin's policy oriented papers written over the past fifteen years.

James Tobin, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, was awarded the Prize in Economic Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1981. The volume brings together for the first time a variety of key papers, and offers several new contributions. They presenta coherent alternative to the influential doctrines that have dominated policy making in North America, Europe and Japan in recent years monetarism, new classical macroeconomics, supply-side economics. Each paper in the book possesses the Tobin hallmark, clarity of expression based on strong analytical foundations. Professor Tobin, who writes from a Keynesian perspective, has organised his essays around principal themes which run through much of his work:

1. Keynesian Economics: Theory and Policy; II. Reaganomics; III.

Fiscal Policies; IV. Monetary and Financial Policies; V. Inflation. Stagflation, Unemployment and Incomes Policies; VI. Political Economy.

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Economics

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