256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings together distinguished scholars who analyze the recent resurgence of inflation from the point of view of conflict among social classes over the appropriate distribution of income. For the better part of the past four decades, inflation remained low and stable in most industrialized economies—certainly close to the various inflation targets. As a result, inflation did not pose... Read more

Introduction: Conflict Inflation

Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes, Sylvio Kappes and Louis-Philippe Rochon

 

1. The Conflict Theory of Inflation Revisited

Robert Rowthorn

 

2. Conflictual Distributional Struggles and Inflation

Malcolm Sawyer

 

3. Sellers' Inflation and Distributive Conflict: Lessons from the Post-COVID Recovery

Ettore Gallo and Louis-Philippe Rochon

 

4. Cost-Push and Conflict Inflation: A Discussion of the Italian Case

Davide Romaniello and Antonella Stirati

 

5. Inflation, Unemployment, and Inequality: Beyond the Traditional Phillips Curve

Lilian Rolim

 

6. Conflictual Inflation and the Phillips Curve

Marc Lavoie

 

7. Which Policies Against Inflation After Covid-19 and the War in Ukraine: The Italian Case

Luigi Salvati and Pasquale Tridico

 

8. Kaleckian Models of Conflict Inflation, Distribution and Employment: A Comparative Analysis

Eckhard Hein and Christoph Häusler

 

9. ‘Sellers’ Inflation’ and Monetary Policy Interventions: A Critical Analysis

Giuseppe Mastromatteo and Sergio Rossi

 

10. Conflict Inflation and the Role of Monetary Policy

Pedro Clavijo-Cortes

 

11. Conflict, Inertia, and Phillips Curve from a Sraffian Standpoint

Franklin Serrano, Ricardo Summa and Guilherme Spinato Morlin

Biography

Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes is Assistant Professor at LINK Campus University and co-editor of the Review of Political Economy. Her research activity is focused on post-Keynesian economics, growth theory, fiscal and monetary policies, income distribution, macroeconomics and regional economics. Her scientific contributions were published in various journals.

Sylvio Antonio Kappes is Professor of Macroeconomics at the Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil. His main areas of research are Stock-flow Consistent models, Monetary Economics and Post-Keynesian Economics. He is co-editor of the Review of Political Economy.

Louis-Philippe Rochon is Full Professor of Economics at Laurentian University, Canada, where he has been teaching since 2004. He is the editor-in-chief of the Review of Political Economy. He is the Founding Editor (now Emeritus) of the Review of Keynesian Economics. He has widely published in post-Keynesian economics, and monetary theory and policy. He has been a visiting professor in over a dozen universities around the world.