‚Globalisierung‘ lautet das Schlagwort, das seit geraumer Zeit die wirtschaftspolitischen Debatten beherrscht. Zunächst war damit vor allem die Öffnung von nationalen Güterund Finanzmärkten gemeint, die mit einem enormen Wachstum der Güterexporte und internationalen Finanztransaktionen...

Erik Lindahl's approach to macroeconomics focused on the non-neutrality of monetary policy (in the short and the long run) and on the denial of the existence of natural rates of interest and unemployment. From the 1920s until his death in 1960, Lindahl advocated the use of norms for monetary...

The article provides an account of the debate that took place between the late 1920s and the mid 1930s between the Scandinavian economists Johan Åkerman and Ragnar Frisch about the quantitative treatment of aggregate economic fluctuations. Although both interpreted the business cycle as an...

The paper discusses the League of Nations's project to produce consensus in the interpretation of aggregate economic fluctuations in the 1930s. G. Haberler started working in 1934 at the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva on a broad enquiry that should lead to a synthesis of the several...