| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 346 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge international studies in money and banking ; 32 |
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Routledge international studies in money and banking ; 32.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1 Fiscal policy reconsidered: introduction / Per Gunnar Berglund -- part Part I Fiscal policy strikes back -- chapter 2 The case for fiscal policy / Philip Arestis -- chapter 3 A fiscal policy to counter recessions: triggered transfers to households LAURENCE S . SEIDMAN AND KENNETH A . LEWIS -- Triggered transfers to households / Laurence S. Seidman -- chapter 4 Integrating sound finance with functional finance / David Colander -- chapter 5 Regime change for the US federal budget / Max B. Sawicky -- part Part II Fiscal policy in the periphery -- chapter 6 Grappling with fiscal reform -- The case of the Dominican Republic / Esteban Pérez Caldentey -- chapter 7 Globalization and endogenous fiscal crisis -- Theory and Brazilian experience / Matias Vernengo -- chapter 8 Fiscal programming and alternatives in debt management -- The Turkish experience / Ebru Voyvoda -- part Part III Fiscal policy for our grandchildren -- chapter 9 Paradox of thrift and budget in a simple Keynesian growth model / Per Gunnar Berglund -- chapter 10 Budget deficits, unemployment and economic growth -- A cross-section time-series analysis / Robert Eisner -- chapter 11 Public spending and public debt in the euro area / Alfred Greiner -- chapter 12 Varieties of fiscal stimulus -- A conflicting claims analysis / Alan G. Isaac -- part Part IV What are the questions? -- chapter 13 The political economy of the deficit -- Roundtable session / Barbara R. Bergmann, Jeffrey A. Frankel, William A. Niskanen, and Laurence S. Seidman; with an introduction by Per Gunnar Berglund -- chapter 14 The final word on fiscal policy -- Interview / Robert Eisner; with an introduction by |
| Summary |
While recent developments in monetary theory have been fast to spread to policy analysis and practice and the media, the same is not true of fiscal policy, and a void has emerged. Issues such as timing, cyclical adjustments, long-term sustainability, and social implications are often seen as detached from discussions in the public arena. This book fills this gap. It delivers a keen assessment of the role and scope of current fiscal policy. New contributions and critical reviews of state of the art research analyze fiscal policy in terms of viability, potency, consequences and sustain |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fiscal policy.
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Finance, Public.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
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Finance, Public
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Fiscal policy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berglund, Per Gunnar.
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Vernengo, Matias, 1968-
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| LC no. |
2005000799 |
| ISBN |
0415701562 |
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9780415701563 |
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0203799283 |
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9780203799284 |
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9786611158651 |
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6611158650 |
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9781135991647 |
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1135991642 |
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9781135991593 |
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1135991596 |
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9781135991630 |
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1135991634 |
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9780415649988 |
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0415649986 |
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