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The Political Economy of Economic Policy |
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Authors: |
Mavroudeas, Stavros D. |
Subject: | LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > MACROECONOMICS AND MONETARY ECONOMICS LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS > TRADE LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS > MACROECONOMIC ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS > GLOBALIZATION LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > PUBLIC ECONOMICS LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION > REGULATION AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AND GROWTH > DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND POLICY LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SCIENCES > ECONOMIC SYSTEMS |
Keywords: |
Economic policy
Fiscal policy Monetary policy Industrial policy External economic policy Economic planning Employment policy Social policy Classical Political Economy Marxist Political Economy Neoclassical Economics Keynesian Economics Neoliberalism New Keynesianism |
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Abstract: |
Economic policy studies the role and intervention of the state in the economy. This is an issue that the science of the economy faced from its very first steps. However, economic policy was constituted as a distinct scientific field during the interwar period due to particular historical circumstances (the crisis of 1929, prolonged political-economic turmoil, collapse of Classical Liberalism, Soviet economic planning experience, Keynesian interventionism).
This book studies the Political Economy of Economic Policy. That is, first, it generally approaches the economy from the point of view of Political Economy (as a social process) and not from that of Economics (as an individual process). Secondly, it embraces the view that economic policy cannot be satisfactorily understood except through a political-economic perspective precisely because of its particular characteristics.
This book is written for readers with elementary rather than extensive knowledge of economic analysis.
The book is divided into three parts. The first part (Chapters 1 to 4) focuses on the reader gaining a good knowledge of the subject matter, the basic concepts, and the main categories of economic policy (fiscal, monetary, industrial, foreign, economic planning, social, etc.). In the second part (Chapters 5 to 11) the basic categories and tools of economic policy are presented in detail, but at the same time, a special focus is placed on the different views and the confrontations between different schools of economic thought regarding these categories and tools. The third part (Chapters 12 to 15) offers the ‘great view’. That is, it analyses the evolution of economic policy (character, aims, functions, pros and cons etc.) through the debates between the main currents of the science of the economy. It especially analyzes the ‘turbulent’ course and the ups and downs of economic policy in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Linguistic Editors: |
Kioseoglou, Nerina |
Graphic Editors: |
Meimaroglou, Antonis |
Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 24-07-2023 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-618-228-058-4 |
License: |
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-292 |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/10130 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Mavroudeas, S. (2023). The Political Economy of Economic Policy [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-292 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. The object of economic policy 2. Basic terms of economic policy 3. The economic role of the state in different economic systems 4. Aims and the political-economic dimension of economic policy 5. Fiscal policy 6. Monetary policy 7. External economic policy 8. Industrial policy 9. Social policy 10. Employment policy 11. Economic planning 12. The Tinbergen-Theil approach 13. The Neoliberal critique 14. The compromise of the New Macroeconomic Consensus 15. The Marxist approach 16. Summary: the adventures of economic policy |
Number of pages |
280 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |
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