Policies for Prosperity: Essays in a Keynesian Mode

by James Tobin

Book Overview

In these timely essays, Nobel prize-winning economist James Tobin shows how Keynesian economics offers corrective treatment for the economic ailments we have faced under the Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations.Essays in the first part of the book focus on theory and policy in Keynesian economics, particularly on the modern anti-Keynesian movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Tobin's writings on the events, controversies, doctrines, and policies of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262700360
• ISBN13: 9780262700368
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher