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The New Monetary Policy: Implications and Relevance
Author(s): Phillip Arestis (Editor), Michelle Baddeley (Editor), John S.L. McCombie (Editor)
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date: 25 Nov. 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 1843769549
- ISBN-13: 9781843769545
Book Description
Recent developments in macroeconomic and monetary thinking have given a new impetus to the management of the economy. The use of monetary policy by way of manipulating the rate of interest to affect inflation is now well accepted by both academic economists and central bank practitioners. Beginning with an assessment of new thinking in macroeconomics and monetary theory, this book suggests that many countries have adopted the New Consensus Monetary Policy since the early 1990s in an attempt to reduce inflation to low levels. It goes on to illustrate that the explicit control of the money supply, which was fashionable in the 1970s and 1980s in the UK, US, Europe and elsewhere, was abandoned in favour of monetary rules that focus on interest rate manipulation by the central bank. The objective of these rules is to achieve specific, or a range of, inflation targets.
Bringing together a distinguished cast of international contributors, this book presents a collection of papers, which discuss the following issues amongst others:
- the stability of the macroeconomic equilibrium
- monetary policy divergences in the Euro area
- stock market prices
- the US post-'new economy' bubble
- the information economy
- inflation targeting.
This useful analysis of New Consensus Monetary Policy will be of great interest to financial economists and international monetary economists, as well as students and scholars of macroeconomics and finance.
Editorial Reviews
Review
'. . . this book provides a useful overview of the challenges facing the IT policy framework, both by pointing to the limitations of the underlying theory and, more importantly, by outlining the importance of a transparent policy framework for anchoring expectations. . . the book should be of interest to all central bankers and students of monetary policy.' -- Colin Rogers, Economic Record
About the Author
Edited by Philip Arestis, University Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Fellow, Wolfson College, UK, Michelle Baddeley, University of Technology Sydney, Australia and John S.L. McCombie, Professor of Regional and Applied Economics and Director, Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, UK
