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The Labor Market and Employment (Handbook article). The labor market differs from typical markets in important ways. We find job competition and collective mechanisms that set wages and working conditions. Changes in employment bring about changes in wages and prices and entail political and...
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The steps in this paper are: (1) to recall the S = I relation and its position in macro-economics, (2) to observe how this equation is very relevant again with the renewed relunctance of banks to finance investments, (3) to point out that consumer durables are investments too, (4) to highlight...
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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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Orthodox economics is founded on behavioral assumptions. This has been the wrong starting point because no way leads from there to an understanding of how the economic system works. Critical Heterodoxy is one step ahead insofar as it does not accept the green cheese assumptionism of optimization...
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This paper develops a theory of stagflation, based on turnover-efficiency-wage theory. In these theories, wages are …
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unemployment and stagnating growth by 1970, called stagflation. Since 1970 governments redressed the welfare state but did not … succeed in finding workable mechanisms. They rather fought stagflation with the ideology of the day, shifting from vulgar … seemed to solve stagflation but only repressed it and resulted into the crisis since 2007. The return of regulation also …
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OECD countries we find an explanation for the Great Stagflation since 1970 that was masked by financial deregulation. (6c …
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The economic implications of oil price shocks have been extensively studied since the oil price shocks of the 1970s'. Despite this huge literature, no dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is available that captures two well-known stylized facts: 1) the stagflationary impact of an oil...
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economic crisis since 2007. This paper also discusses aspects of the continued stagflation, the euro, investments and the …
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The paper argues that the world economy might experiment inflationary pressures (or restrictive policies aimed at fighting them) when the economic depression triggered by the financial crisis is stabilized. The primary cause is that bad money has been (endogenously) delivered which did not lead...
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