Overview
- A positive critique on new classical economics is exerted: the book is aimed at drawing precisely the validity of new classical macroeconomics
- The critique is based on the original texts and not on the literature by the followers and critics
- Handles new classical macroeconomics in a broad context, clarifying its methodology and even some major interconnections with the Western philosophical heritage as well
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)
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This book examines new classical macroeconomics from a comparative and critical point of view that confronts the original texts and later comments as a first dimension of comparison. The second dimension appears in a historical context, since none of the new classical doctrines can be analyzed ignoring the parallelism and discrepancies with the theory of Keynes, Friedman or Phelps. Radicalism of new classical macroeconomics has brought fundamental changes in economic thought, but the doctrines got vulgarized and distorted thanks to the mass of followers. Nowadays, economic theory and policy, trying to find their ways, have a less clear relationship than ever. Therefore, this volume is aimed at mapping and reconsidering the policy instruments and transmission mechanisms offered by the new classicals. Its central question points to the real nature of new classical macroeconomics: what consequences are grounded by the assumptions new classicals used. Moreover, issues raised by automatic fiscal stabilizers and fiscal reforms are analyzed as well, even if they were out of the range of classical texts. The book draws a picture of new classical macroeconomics stressing the analogies with Keynesian countercyclical policies, instead of the discrepancies commonly held.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Peter Galbács is a researcher of the theory and methodology of mainstream economics. After studying sociology and social philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Piliscsaba, Hungary), he took a master and later a Ph.D. degree on macroeconomic theory in his hometown, at the University of Miskolc (Hungary). These early influences determine fundamentally the way he questions economic theory, regarding economic theory as a thesaurus of philosophical texts that describe the economic aspects of processes of societies. His experience on the econometric and modelling considerations of mainstream economics was widely used at the State Audit Office of Hungary during the years he was working there as an academic consultant. Now he is a lecturer of Budapest Business School in monetary economics and history of economic thoughts.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Theory of New Classical Macroeconomics
Book Subtitle: A Positive Critique
Authors: Peter Galbács
Series Title: Contributions to Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17578-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-17577-5Published: 08 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36155-0Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17578-2Published: 23 April 2015
Series ISSN: 1431-1933
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 368
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Original Hungarian edition published by Akadémiai Kiadó Zrt., Budapest, 2012
Topics: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Economic Policy, Philosophy of Science