04771nam 22006495 450 991063392740332120251009101442.09783031112409303111240710.1007/978-3-031-11240-9(MiAaPQ)EBC7150615(Au-PeEL)EBL7150615(CKB)25510404800041(OCoLC)1352967764(DE-He213)978-3-031-11240-9(EXLCZ)992551040480004120221130d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDebates in Monetary Macroeconomics Tackling Some Unsettled Questions /edited by Steven Pressman, John Smithin1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.1 online resource (249 pages)Print version: Pressman, Steven Debates in Monetary Macroeconomics Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031112393 Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction - Pressman and Smithin -- I. Budget -- 2. Keynes after Piketty: Some Unsettling Questions Regarding Government Budget Deficits - Steven Pressman -- 3. Some Unsettling Questions Regarding Government Budget Deficits: The National Debt is Irrelevant - David Barrows -- II. Trade -- 4. The Ambiguous Effects of Pursuing Current Account Surpluses - Nina Eichacker -- 5. Does a Current Account Deficit Indicate Bad Economic Policy? - William Scarth -- III. Taxes -- 6. How Taxes Can Be Used as a Deflationary Tool - Joelle Leclaire -- 7. What is the Sign of the Balanced-Budget Multiplier? - John Smithin -- IV. Exchange Rates -- 8. A Modern Defence of Flexible Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy Rules - Eric Kam and Mohammed Moshin -- 9. The Case for Fixed Exchange Rates Regimes: What For and in What Form? - Adrien Faudot -- V. Monetary Policy -- 10. Should the Implementation of Monetary Policy Be Subject to Rules? - Martin Watts and George Pantelopolous -- 11. Rules Are (Sometimes) Meant to Be Broken: Arguments in Favor of Discretionary Monetary Policy - Sarah F. Small.This edited volume presents the key unresolved debates in monetary macroeconomics, covering the five topics of budget, trade, taxes, exchange rates and monetary policy. For each topic, there are two authors — one arguing for a certain policy and one against. The book takes an approach eschewing mathematics or econometrics, instead presenting arguments in the spirit of political economy - while incorporating the most recent thinking in macroeconomics. This approach, combined with the objective of encouraging debate, makes the book ideal reading for students of monetary macroeconomics, researchers seeking alternative views, and the general public. Steven Pressman is Adjunct Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York, and Professor Emeritus of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. In addition, he serves as Associate Editor of the Review of Political Economy. For over two decades he served as Book Review Editor and Associate Editor of the Eastern Economic Journal as well as the Treasurer of the Eastern Economic Association, and has served as President of the Association for Social Economics. John Smithin is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University, Toronto, and Executive Co-Director and Fellow of the Aurora Philosophy Institute. He previously held teaching appointments at the University of Calgary, and Lanchester Polytechnic at Coventry (now Coventry University) in England. In the academic year 1995-96 he was elected Bye Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge.MacroeconomicsEconomicsEconomicsHistoryEconomic policyMacroeconomics and Monetary EconomicsPolitical Economy and Economic SystemsHistory of Economic Thought and MethodologyEconomic PolicyMacroeconomics.Economics.EconomicsHistory.Economic policy.Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics.Political Economy and Economic Systems.History of Economic Thought and Methodology.Economic Policy.338.9339.53Pressman Steven1955-Smithin JohnMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910633927403321Debates in monetary macroeconomics3090287UNINA