Macroeconomics Theory and Policy in the UK

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Edition: 3rd
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Pub. Date: 1997-04-03
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Pitched at the optimum level for undergraduate students, the third edition of this successful and widely adopted intermediate level UK macroeconomics text has been very extensively revised and updated. The authors have ensured that the existing stengths of the book's tried and tested approach are retained whilst the latest theoretical developments and policy controversies are examined. It provides the UK undergraduate with:- Traditional methods of analysis (IS/LM) as well as neo classical and neo Keynesian approaches.- An emphasis on the leading contemporary conceptual issues and an historical perspective on their development.- A highly developed and successful text with a non-US orientation that makes sense of the UK context for macroeconomic policy and debate.Based on long teaching experience Macroeconomicswill continue to be an essential text for second and third year undergraduate courses.

Author Biography

G K Shaw and Mike McCrostie are both in the Department of Economics at the University of Buckingham and David Greenaway is in the Department of Economics at the University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
ix(4)
List of Tables
xiii(1)
Preface to the Third Edition xiv(1)
Preface to the Second Edition xv(1)
Preface to the First Edition xvi
1 The Nature of Macroeconomics
1(16)
Methodology
4(2)
Principal Macroeconomic Schools in the UK
6(4)
The Evolution of Ideas
10(6)
Concluding Comments
16(1)
Further Reading
16(1)
PART I MACROECONOMIC SECTORS 17(120)
2 Aggregate Consumption Expenditure
18(22)
Current Income Theories
18(6)
Normal Income Theories
24(10)
Endogenous Income Theories
34(3)
Some Empirical Evidence
37(1)
Concluding Comments
38(1)
Further Reading
39(1)
3 Aggregate Investment Expenditure
40(21)
Approaches to Investment Theory
41(1)
The Cost of Capital and Investment
42(9)
Dynamic Theories of Investment Behaviour
51(2)
The Neo-classical Analysis of Investment
53(4)
The Importance of Profit and Retained Earnings
57(1)
Some Policy Implications
58(1)
Concluding Comments
59(1)
Further Reading
60(1)
4 The Government Sector
61(14)
The Composition of Government Expenditure and Revenue
62(1)
The Changing Status of Fiscal Policy
63(1)
The Balanced Budget Multiplier
64(7)
The Composition of the Tax Mix
71(2)
Concluding Comments
73(1)
Further Reading
74(1)
5 The Demand for Money
75(22)
The Functions of Money
76(1)
Classical Monetary Theory - the Traditional Quantity Theory
77(1)
The Keynesian Analysis of the Demand for Money
78(8)
Post-Keynesian Modifications to the Demand for Money
86(3)
The Revival of the Quantity Theory
89(3)
Some Empirical Evidence
92(3)
Concluding Comments
95(1)
Further Reading
95(2)
6 The Supply of Money
97(18)
The Money Supply Process
97(7)
Delineating the Money Stock
104(1)
Money Supply Definitions in the UK
105(2)
Monetary Control in the UK
107(4)
Concluding Comments
111(1)
Appendix: The Aggregate Demand Curve
111(3)
Further Reading
114(1)
7 The Labour Market
115(22)
The Supply of Labour
115(3)
The Demand for Labour
118(2)
Employment and Aggregate Supply
120(6)
Expectations Formation and Market Clearing
126(4)
Institutional Arrangements and Market Clearing
130(5)
Concluding Comments
135(1)
Further Reading
135(2)
PART II MACROECONOMIC SYSTEMS 137(154)
8 The Classical Economic System
139(14)
The Essential Features of Classical Macroeconomic Systems
139(2)
The Classical Model
141(2)
Say's Law and the Monetary Sector
143(6)
The Role of Money
149(1)
Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis
150(1)
Concluding Comments
151(1)
Further Reading
151(2)
9 The Economics of Keynes
153(13)
The Context and Scope of the General Theory
153(6)
The Unstable Expectations Thesis
156(1)
The General Equilibrium Model
157(5)
The Hicksian Income-Expenditure Approach
162(2)
Concluding Comments
164(1)
Further Reading
164(2)
10 The Hicksian IS/LM Analysis
166(19)
Essential Features of the IS/LM Framework
166(1)
Derivation of the IS Curve
167(3)
Derivation of the LM Curve
170(2)
Equilibrium
172(2)
Characteristics of the IS/LM Analysis
174(7)
The Policy Framework
181(2)
Concluding Comments
183(1)
Further Reading
184(1)
11 Comparative Statics of the Classical, Keynesian and Monetarist Models
185(20)
The Policy Dispute
185(8)
Extending the Hicksian Framework
193(2)
The Flex Price Model
195(6)
The Monetarist Contention
201(3)
Concluding Comments
204(1)
Further Reading
204(1)
12 The Government Sector, the Budget Constraint and the Crowding Out Controversy
205(18)
The Government Budget Constraint in the IS/LM Model
206(5)
The Nature of the Budget Constraint
211(6)
The Crowding Out Controversy
217(3)
The Budget Constraint and Inflation
220(2)
Concluding Comments
222(1)
Further Reading
222(1)
13 Output, Employment, Expectations and the Price Level
223(26)
Inflation and its Causes
223(6)
The Phillips Curve Relation
229(3)
Expectations in Macroeconomics
232(3)
The Role of Inflationary Expectations
235(3)
Output, Inflation and Adaptive Expectations
238(2)
Output, Inflation and Rational Expectations
240(3)
Doubts Regarding the Rational Expectations Hypothesis
243(3)
Empirical Evidence on Expectations
246(1)
Concluding Comments
247(1)
Further Reading
248(1)
14 Internal and External Balance
249(24)
The Foreign Exchange Market
249(2)
The Balance of Payments
251(2)
The Foreign Trade Sector and the Income Multiplier
253(4)
Internal and External (Current Account) Balance
257(3)
Internal and External (Current and Capital Account) Balance
260(7)
IS/LM Analysis with a Floating Exchange Rate
267(1)
Stabilization Policy under Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates
268(3)
Concluding Comments
271(1)
Further Reading
271(2)
15 Monetary Disturbances, Expectations and Exchange Rate Dynamics
273(18)
The Absorption Approach to the Balance of Payments
273(4)
The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments
277(4)
Monetary Disturbances, Expectations and the Exchange Rate
281(5)
Exchange Rate Overshooting
286(2)
Concluding Comments
288(1)
Further Reading
288(3)
PART III MACROECONOMIC POLICY 291(102)
16 The Macroeconomic Policy Debate
293(15)
The Policy Debate
294(2)
The Expectations Revolution and Macro-policy
296(2)
The New Keynesian Response
298(8)
Conclusion
306(1)
Further Reading
306(2)
17 Approaches to Macroeconomic Policy
308(12)
The Optimizing Approach
308(1)
The Fixed Targets Approach
309(2)
The Problem of Time Inconsistency
311(2)
Macroeconomic Policy and Uncertainty
313(1)
The Principle of Certainty Equivalence
314(2)
Concluding Comments
316(1)
Appendix: The Principle of Certainty Equivalence
317(1)
The Problem of Time Inconsistency
317(1)
Further Reading
318(2)
18 Macroeconomic Policy: Objectives, Instruments and Constraints
320(15)
Policy Objectives
321(3)
Policy Instruments
324(8)
Constraints on Macroeconomic Policy
332(1)
Concluding Comments
333(1)
Further Reading
334(1)
19 Inflation and Counter-inflation Policy in the UK
335(16)
Why Should Governments Control Inflation?
336(3)
Instruments of Anti-inflation Policy
339(1)
Inflationary Control in the UK, 1950-1979
339(4)
Policy since 1979
343(6)
Concluding Comments
349(1)
Further Reading
350(1)
20 Unemployment in the UK
351(13)
Types of Unemployment
352(2)
Patterns of Unemployment in the UK
354(2)
Employment Policy in the UK
356(2)
Unemployment since the 1970s
358(4)
Policy Implications of Present Unemployment
362(1)
Concluding Comments
363(1)
Further Reading
363(1)
21 Balance of Payments and Exchange Rate Policies in the UK
364(15)
The Meaning of External Balance
364(2)
An Overview of the UK Balance of Payments
366(6)
Balance of Payments Policy, 1950-1995
372(5)
Concluding Comments
377(1)
Further Reading
377(2)
22 Policies for Economic Growth in the UK
379(14)
The Sources of Economic Growth
379(2)
Some Growth Theory
381(3)
The Solow Growth Formula
384(1)
Recent Policy and Experience in the UK
385(5)
Explaining Britain's Relative Growth Performance
390(1)
Concluding Comments
391(1)
Further Reading
392(1)
Bibliography 393(19)
Index 412

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