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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454952503321

Autore

Garrison Roger W.

Titolo

Time and money : the macroeconomics of capital structure / / Roger W. Garrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2001

ISBN

1-134-89590-9

0-429-22969-0

1-280-32425-2

9786610324255

0-203-20808-0

0-203-32038-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Foundations of the market economy

Disciplina

339.53

Soggetti

Money

Capital

Macroeconomics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Frameworks; The macroeconomics of capital structure; An agenda for macroeconomics; Capital and time; Capital-based macroeconomics; Sustainable and unsustainable growth; Fiscal and regulatory issues; Risk, debt, and bubbles: variation on a theme; Keynes and capitalism; Labor-based macroeconomics; Cyclical unemployment and policy prescription; Secular unemployment and social reform; Money and prices; Boom and bust in the Monetarist vision; Monetary disequilibrium theory; Perspective; Macroeconomics: taxonomy and perspective

Bibliography Index

Sommario/riassunto

Time and Money argues persuasively that the troubles which characterise modern capital-intensive economies, particularly the episodes of boom and bust, may best be analysed with the aid of a



capital-based macroeconomics. The primary focus of this text is the intertemporal structure of capital, an area that until now has been neglected in favour of labour and money-based macroeconomics.