Cet article propose une evaluation critique de ce que le courant néoclassique appelle la "nouvelle theorie" de la croissance. Il analyse ce qu'est la "croissance endogene", en presentant, dans une premiere partie, les origines, mecanismes et catégories de modèles à progres technique...

It is argued that today's Canadian monetary system has certain important characteristics in common with a free banking regime such as might have evolved had matters been left to market forces, and that the Bank of Canada's recent success probably has more than a little to do with this fact. It...

Simple life cycle and permanent income hypotheses imply that changes in consumption should be unforecastable. Rational forward-looking agents ought to smooth consumption over the life cycle and exhaust the asset stock accumulated during the working career in retirement. Empirical observations...

Cette contribution a pour objectif d'analyser les proprietes de long terme d'une maquette de modele macroeconomique de type neo-keynesien, dans laquelle sont introduites deux formalisations alternatives de l'equation de salaire. Les proprietes de l'equilibre de long terme obtenu par la...

The Spanish economic thought has continued to exist during the autarchic phase of the Franco system. The context of expression of the thought did not allow the free assertion of the convictions and philosophies : it were existing an official ideology and forbidden ideas. Economists of the...

The paper reports results that show a much weakened statistical relationship between total bank credit, total deposits and the broad money supply for the period after 1995 for the US, where no statistical causation can be discerned in either direction. This has been the result of the changing...

Recent developments in macroeconomics are reviewed, and it is argued that a better understanding of the role of market failures and institutions is a major achievement. The insights in when and how policy intervention may be called for have thus been improved. However, the progress does not...

In the late 40-ies of XX c., Claude Shannon developed the formula for the information unit, the bit. Since then, the problem concerning the informative essence of the economic processes and the phenomena in general initiated a new direction in science. However, the information theory has still...

This paper critically analyses Bateman's interpretation of Keynes's thought as presented in his 1996 book, Keynes's Uncertain Revolution. The book has two main aims. One is to present a 'thick' history of the evolution of Keynes's thinking on probability and uncertainty, by which is meant a...