Debates in Monetary Macroeconomics : Tackling Some Unsettled Questions

1. Introduction - Pressman and Smithin -- I. Budget -- 2. Keynes after Piketty: Some Unsettling Questions Regarding Government Budget Deficits - Steven Pressman -- 3. Some Unsettling Questions Regarding Government Budget Deficits: The National Debt is Irrelevant - David Barrows -- II. Trade -- 4. The Ambiguous Effects of Pursuing Current Account Surpluses - Nina Eichacker -- 5. Does a Current Account Deficit Indicate Bad Economic Policy? - William Scarth -- III. Taxes -- 6. How Taxes Can Be Used as a Deflationary Tool - Joelle Leclaire -- 7. What is the Sign of the Balanced-Budget Multiplier? - John Smithin -- IV. Exchange Rates -- 8. A Modern Defence of Flexible Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy Rules - Eric Kam and Mohammed Moshin -- 9. The Case for Fixed Exchange Rates Regimes: What For and in What Form? - Adrien Faudot -- V. Monetary Policy -- 10. Should the Implementation of Monetary Policy Be Subject to Rules? - Martin Watts and George Pantelopolous -- 11. Rules Are (Sometimes) Meant to Be Broken: Arguments in Favor of Discretionary Monetary Policy - Sarah F. Small.