1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454966503321

Titolo

Understanding inflation and the implications for monetary policy [[electronic resource] ] : a Phillips curve retrospective / / edited by Jeff Fuhrer ... [et al.] ; foreword by Paul A. Samuelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2009

ISBN

0-262-25820-X

1-282-69446-4

9786612694462

0-262-25878-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (517 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FuhrerJeffrey C

Disciplina

332.4/1

Soggetti

Inflation (Finance)

Phillips curve

Monetary policy

Unemployment - Effect of inflation on - Mathematical models

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at a meeting held in June 2008 and sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1 The Phillips Curve in Historical Context; 2 Fifty Years of the Phillips Curve; 3 Forecasting Inflation; 4 The Labor Market and the Phillips Curve; 5 Inflation Expectations; 6 Evidence on Price Determination; 7 Is the Phillips Curve Vertical in the Long Run?; 8 Lessons for Central Bankers; 9 The Phillips Curve Going Forward; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

The 'Phillips curve' represents the inverse relationship between inflation & unemployment, & is a central concept in macroeconomic analysis. This volume offers an assessment of how more sophisticated analysis of prices & wage setting & inflation expectations have changed the nature of the curve.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788074303321

Titolo

Women's fiction and post-9/11 contexts / / edited by Peter Childs, Claire Colebrook and Sebastian Groes ; contributors, Peter Childs [and twelve others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0096-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

809.3/0082

Soggetti

Fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence

Fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Counter-Apocalyptic, Counter-Sex; Chapter Two: The Turn to Precarity in Twenty-First-Century Fiction; Chapter Three: Aesthetics, Form and Consolation in Zadie Smith's On Beauty; Chapter Four: Against Spectacle; Chapter Five: Beyond Queer Time after 9/11; Chapter Six: The Naming of Love, or Reading Anne Enright's The Gathering against Derrida's The Politics of Friendship; Chapter Seven: Ordinary Sublime; Chapter Eight: Lionel Shriver's (We Need to Talk About) Kevin; Chapter Nine: Counter-discourses in Post-9/11 Muslim Women's Narratives

Chapter Ten: In the Light of A.L. Kennedy's DayChapter Eleven: "Please don't hate me, sensitive girl readers"; Chapter Twelve: "How did it come to this"; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>Rather than accept that there is a single body of literature that can be labeled "women's writing," this volume explores the ways in which twenty-first-century crises have problematized identity, literature, and narration. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>