This book critically explores past and present principles of central banking, and outlines a new framework for future stabilization policy. Through compact and concise chapters, it demonstrates why a constant long-term interest rate would be the most beneficial target for monetary policy to...

Eine kurze Geschichte der Geldpolitik -- Die Institutionen der Geldpolitik -- Der geldpolitische Auftrag – multiple Ziele oder klarer Fokus? -- Fokussierte Politik mit herkömmlichen Mitteln -- Ein Alternativmodell: die Stabilisierung des langfristigen Zinses -- Welcher Zins ist fest im...

1:-On the History of Monetary Policy -- 2.:-An Alternative Model: Stabilizing the Long-Term Interest Rate -- 3:-New Instruments for Monetary Policy -- 4:-Paths to the Fixed-Rate Model – How, Where, and When? -- 5:-Some Supplements -- 6:-On the Governance Structure of Fully Independent Central...

In 2009, just before the full outbreak of the global financial crisis, Olivier Blanchard (2009) published an article giving a favourable appraisal of the state of macroeconomics. He came to this verdict on the basis that, after a long period of fierce theoretical debate, the discipline had...