1st Edition

Macroeconomics in Question The Keynesian-Monetartist Orthodoxies and Kaleckian Alternative

By Malcolm C. Sawyer Copyright 1983
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1982, this book has two central purposes. The first is to present a rather more critical view of the Keynesian and monetarist approaches to macro-economics than is usually found in major macro-economics text-books. The second is to present an alternative approach to macro-economics, derived in the main from the work of Michal Kalecki. It will become apparent below that the... Read more
List of Figures, List of Main Symbols Used, Preface, 1 The Nature of Macro-Economics, 2 The Building Blocks of Conventional Macro-Economics, 3 The Keynesian-Monetarist Orthodoxy, 4 Inflation, Expectations and Unemployment, 5 The Building Blocks of a Kaleckian Macro-Economics, 6 The Kaleckian Approach to Macro-Economics, 7 Empirical Support for the Kaleckian Approach, 8 Concluding Remarks, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Malcolm C. Sawyer READER IN ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF YORK