The economics of public spending : debts, deficits, and economic performance /

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Imprint:Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., c2000.
Description:xii, 177 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4398659
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Other authors / contributors:Bougrine, Hassan.
ISBN:1840643978
Notes:A collection of 8 papers presented at a conference underwritten by the Laurentian University, Canada.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Fiscal policy and the current crisis: are budget deficits a cause, a consequence or a remedy?
  • 2. The evolution of a new 'neoliberal, balanced budget' social structure of accumulation? Emerging prospects for the United States and world economies
  • 3. Macroeconomic policy for a post-conservative era: can and should demand management policies be resuscitated?
  • 4. The long-run fiscal deflation: a real interpretation of the late twentieth-century world crisis
  • 5. Government debt monetization and inflation: a somewhat jaundiced view
  • 6. Government deficits in simple Kaleckian models
  • 7. On the limitations of fiscal policy: a radical Kaleckian view
  • 8. Public investment and growth
  • Index