1st Edition

A Search for Synthesis in Economic Theory

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1986. Since the late 1960s the seeming inability of traditional monetary and fiscal policies to combat "stagflation" and address other macroeconomic issues has accelerated the erosion of confidence in the prevailing economic paradigm , the " neoclassical synthesis." * Dissensions among the members of the economics profession on both sides of the Atlantic have grown in number.... Read more

Introduction, Contemporary Reinterpretations of Classicism, Contemporary Reinterpretations of the Neoclassical Synthesis, Contemporary Reinterpretations of Post-Keynesianism, The Widening Common Ground in Economic Analysis

Biography

Ching-Yao Hsieh is Professor o f Economics at George Washington University. He is the author (with J. Aschiem) of Macroeconomics Income and Monetary Theory and A Short Introduction to Modern Growth Theory. Stephen L. Mangum is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Management and Human Resources, The Ohio State University. He is the coauthor of The Lingering Crisis of Youth.