Macroeconomics, Finance and Money: Essays in Honour of Philip Arestis - Hardcover

Fontana, Giuseppe; McCombie, John; Sawyer, Malcolm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230229069 ISBN 13: 9780230229068

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

An internationally respected team of contributors have been brought together to analyse core issues in Macroeconomics, Finance and Money which have arisen in the aftermath of the financial crisis. This volume presents a collection of outstanding papers that have been specifically selected to pay tribute to Philip Arestis, Cambridge University, honouring his contributions to macroeconomics, finance and money. Issues examined include: the causes and effects of crisis and bubbles in financial markets, the role of monetary policy and central banks in the operations of the economy, inflation and macroeconomic policy and financial liberalisation and governance in developing countries. This book is indispensable reading for all interested in Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics and Finance

About this title

Book Description:

This volume focuses on current issues of debate in the area of modern macroeconomics and money, written from (a broadly interpreted) post Keynesian perspective

About the Author:

GIUSEPPE FONTANA is an expert on Endogenous Money theory and the New Consensus macroeconomics theory. He has recently been awarded the first G.L.S. Shackle Prize, St. Edmund's College (University of Cambridge, UK). He is a Visiting Research Professor at the Centre for Full Employment and Price Stability (University of Missouri Kansas City, USA), and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy (University of Cambridge, UK). 
  
JOHN MCCOMBIE is Director of the Centre for Economic and Public Policy and Fellow in Economics, Downing College, University of Cambridge, UK. He has previously held positions in Economics departments at the University of Hull and the University of Melbourne. His research interests include the study of national and regional growth disparities, economic growth and the balance-of-payments constraint, and criticisms of the aggregate production function and conventional measures of the rate of technical progress. He has published widely in these areas.
 
MALCOLM SAWYER is Professor of Economics, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK. He was until recently Pro-Dean for Learning and Teaching for the Faculty of Business, University of Leeds, UK. He is managing editor of International Review of Applied Economics and on the editorial board of a range of journals. He has published widely in the areas of post Keynesian and Kaleckian economics, industrial economics and the UK economy. He has authored 11 books and edited 18, has published over 70 papers in refereed journals and contributed chapters over 100 books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230229069
• ISBN 13: 9780230229068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 367