Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 1: Partial Perspectives (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

This book represents the first of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction. It questions in a radical way the evolution of Keynesian macroeconomics after World War II and focuses on the limitations of the traditional Keynesian approach until it fell apart in the early 1970s, as well as the inadequacy of the new consensus in macroeconomics that emerged from the Monetarist critique of Keynesianism. Professors Chiarella, Flaschel and Semmler investigate basic methodological issues, the pitfalls of the Rational Expectations School, important feedback channels in the tradition of Tobin’s work, and theories of the wage-price spiral and the evidences for them. The book uses primarily partial approaches, the integration of which will be the subject of subsequent volumes. With its focus on Keynesian propagation mechanisms, the research in this book provides a unique alternative to the black-box shock-absorber approaches that dominate modern macroeconomics. __Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics__ should be of interest to students and researchers who want to look at alternatives to the mainstream macrodynamics that emerged from the Monetarist critique of Keynesianism. This book represents the first of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and focuses on partial model building and the interaction between the labour and goods market. V. 1. Partial Perspectives Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel And Willi Semmler. V. 1. Partial Perspectives Includes Bibliographical References And Index.