Macroeconomic Policies of Developed Democracies

by Robert J. Franzese Jr.

Book Overview

This book synthesizes and extends modern political-economic theory to explain the postwar evolution of macroeconomic policy in developed democracies. Chapters 2-4 study transfers, debt, and monetary/wage policy-making and outcomes, stressing that participation enhances transfer-policy responsiveness to inequality and vice versa, that policy-making veto actors retard fiscal-policy adjustments, inducing greater long-run debt-responses to all other political-economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521004411
• ISBN13: 9780521004411
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"