Inflation et désinflation

Quelles sont les principales causes de l'inflation ? A qui profite l'inflation et quels en sont les principaux effets ? La désinflation est-elle un phénomène conjoncturel indépendant des politiques économiques ? De quels moyens disposent les gouvernements pour lutter contre l'inflation ? Comment les grands pays ...

El idioma de los precios

los pequeños misterios del dinero

Pocas cosas en nuestra vida cotidiana resultan más usuales que el dinero. Tanto es así que la palabra dinero nos sirve para referirnos a muy diversas realidades, desde las monedas y billetes que habitualmente llevamos con nosotros, hasta la riqueza de que disponemos, pasando por ...

Econophysics of wealth distributions

Econophys-Kolkata I

Understanding the distribution of income and wealth in an economy has been a classic problem in economics for the last hundred years. Apart from the rapidly decaying number density of people with their income crossing over to a robust power law for the very rich ...

Structural unemployment in western Europe

reasons and remedies

Leading international economists examine the different patterns and long-term trends behind persistent unemployment across Western Europe in light of recent developments in labour market theory. Structural unemployment, or persistently high levels of unemployment that do not follow the ups and downs of a typical business ...

Economic growth with income and wealth distribution

The book deals with economic issues related to income and wealth among individuals, regions and countries. It presents a general theory with endogenous capital, knowledge and preference changes for an economic system with heterogeneous households, multiple sectors, multiple regions and multiple countries. Economic issues and ...

The theory of international trade and unemployment

In this book, Paul Oslington underlines the contradiction between the prominence of job losses in political conflict over trade liberalization, and trade economists usually working with full employment models.

Tax policy and labor market performance

This work talks about the effect of tax policies and welfare state incentives on the performance of the labor market: theoretical and empirical analyses by leading European and American economists. High unemployment in many European OECD countries has been attributed to factors ranging from rigid ...

The Natural survival of work

job creation and job destruction in a growing economy

How to manage the unemployment that occurs in the process of the continuous job destruction and creation responsible for growth in today's economies: what recent economic research tells us about wages, incentives to work, and education. Every working day in the United States, 90 ...

The price index and its extensions

a chapter in economic measurement

A theft amounting to £1 was a capital offence in 1260 and a judge in 1610 affirmed the law could not then be applied since £1 was no longer what it was. Such association of money with a date is well recognized for its importance ...

The inflation-targeting debate

Tiempo y dinero

la macroeconomía de la estructura del capital

Collective bargaining and wage formation

performance and challenges

This volume considers the development of the wage formation and wage bargaining institutions as a response to changes in the bargaining environment. These changes include a lower level of inflation and the growth in intraindustrial trade as firms have become more specialised. The response to ...

Money and employment

a study of the theoretical implications of endogenous money

Money and Employment examines the analytical role of money within classical, neoclassical and Keynesian theories of output and employment. The book argues that an endogenously determined money supply is inconsistent with the essential structure of neoclassical economic theory but a necessary condition for a long ...

The economics of deflation

#Deflation may be one of the most daunting policy challenges facing policymakers today. What makes deflation particularly challenging is its multifaceted nature and its newness for the current generation of economists and policymakers. With his extensive knowledge of history and the current debate, Pierre Siklos ...

Minimum wages and poverty

an evaluation of policy alternatives

This research investigates the impact of three equal cost alternative labor market policies on the economic well-being of low-income families and society in general at the turn of the 21st century. The principal focus is on how changes in the minimum wage, Earned Income Tax ...

El diferencial de desempleo andaluz

análisis macroeconómico del mercado de trabajo andaluz en comparación con el resto de España (1980-2000)

Involuntary unemployment

the elusive quest for a theoty

The Great Depression of the 1930s with its dramatic unemployment rates was one of the most striking economic events of the past century. It shook economists' belief in the existence of self-adjusting forces and prompted Keynes to write his masterwork, The General Theory of Employment ...

Growth and employment in Europe

Zagler investigates the interaction between changes in the level of unemployment and changes in the economic rate of growth. It asks, both in theory and in evidence, whether a change in the growth rate of the economy will affect the level of unemployment which the ...

The rise of unemployment in Europe

a keynesian approach

Ahorro, equilibrio y crecimiento

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº 182, año 2004)