Introduction -- Why Are Standard Micro-foundations Wrong? -- Statistical Physics and Macroeconomics -- Stochastic Macro-Equilibrium: A Micro-foundation of Keynesian Economics -- The Business Cycle: The Role of Aggregate Demand -- Demand Saturation and Economic Growth ―― Where Keynes and...

1. Introduction -- 2. China: A Historic Mobilization Ends -- 3. The Great Demographic Reversal and its Effect on Future Growth -- 4. Dependency, Dementia and the Coming Crisis of Caring -- 5. The Likely Resurgence of Inflation -- 6. The Determination of (Real) Interest Rates during the Great...

Chapter 1. introduction -- Chapter 2. Two-Period Model of Government Investment -- Chapter 3. Politics and Corruption in the Two-Period Model -- Chapter 4. Overlapping-Generations Model of Growth -- Chapter 5. Fiscal Policy in the Overlapping-Generations Model. Chapter 5. Politics, Corruption,...

Chapter 1: Why Finance Matters for Economics: The Story of Financing the Railroad -- Chapter 2: The Story of the Original Boom and Bust in Western Finance: The Mississippi Bubble -- Chapter 3: Price Determination in a Multi Sector Global Economy -- Chapter 4: Credit Allocation and the Role of...

This book collects selected articles addressing several currently debated issues in the field of international macroeconomics. They focus on the role of the central banks in the debate on how to come to terms with the long-term decline in productivity growth, insufficient aggregate demand, high...

Chapter 1. Dynamics: Intertemporal Decision-Making -- Chapter 2. Games: Strategic Decision-Making -- Chapter 3. Economic Growth Models -- Chapter 4. More on Growth Dynamics: Endogenous Growth and Beyond -- Chapter 5. The Search and Matching Model -- Chapter 6. Fiscal Policy and Government...

Although Asia has been the world engine of economic growth since World War II, growth rates have differed sharply among the countries of the region. Still, all Asian countries have experienced some degree of growth limitation. Japan is facing the crucial issue of a quickly aging and shrinking...

Macroeconomics is the application of economic theory to the study of the economy’s growth, cycle and price-level determination. Macroeconomics takes account of stylized facts observed in the real world and builds theoretical frameworks to explain such facts. Economic growth is a stylized fact...

1. Introduction: Reviving the Work of America's Most Original Economist -- 2.Understanding Rents in the Real Economy -- 3. Growth and Rents in the Real Economy -- 4. A New Look at the "Henry George Theorem" -- 5. Savings and Investment: From the Price Mechanism to the Multiplier -- 6. From Craft...

1. Introduction -- 2. European money and culture before 1914 -- 3. The 1920s: Lessons from Weimar -- 4. The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s -- 5. The money-haters: experiments in socialism -- 6. Europe between the world wars: a ferment of ideas -- 7. How Europe’s culture kept money under...