it is known today, macroeconomics began in 1936 with the publication of John Maynard Keynes’s “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”. Its subsequent history can be divided into three eras. The era of policy which was guided by Keynes’s ideas began in the 1940s. By the 1970s it had encountered problems that it could not solve and so, in the 1980s, the monetarist era, most commonly associated with the work of Milton Friedman, began.
Policymakers looked for something new. The monetarist ideas of the 1980s inspired Paul Volcker, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, to crush inflation by constraining the money supply, even though doing so also produced a recession that sent unemployment soaring. The fact that Volcker had known that this would probably happen revealed that something else had changed.
The second post-financial-crisis problem related to distribution. While concerns about the costs of globalisation and automation helped boost populist politics, economists asked in whose interests capitalism had lately been working. An apparent surge in American inequality after 1980 became central to much economic research. Some worried that big firms had become too powerful; others, that a globalised society was too sharp-edged or that social mobility was declining.
Even before covid-19, policymakers were starting to focus once again on the greater effect of the bust and boom of the business cycle on the poor. But since the economy has been hit with a crisis that hurts the poorest hardest, a new sense of urgency has emerged. That is behind the shift in macroeconomics. Devising new ways of getting back to full employment is once again the top priority for economists.
Take the first school. Its proponents say that so long as central banks are able to print money to buy assets they will be able to boost economic growth and inflation. Some economists argue that central banks must do this to the extent necessary to restore growth and hit their inflation targets. If they fail it is not because they are out of ammunition but because they are not trying hard enough.
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Both are and have been 'wrong-headed' for America!!!!
Ordinary people are exhausted, living paycheck to paycheck, hearing that trillions are injected in the system... and at the same time realizing that the currency they use in their everyday life is so scarce MMT might not be popular with economists, but voters are not economists
The two Economic Philosophies wobbled after the Crisis? Let's try: the two dominant theories were t/CAUSE of the Economic Crisis. Capitalism first wobbled at the very notion of a Reagan Presidency! From t/point forward; it was all! Reagan, Greenspan (1987-2006), and Bernanke!
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Simple: Keynesian economics doesnt work on the long run. Let the private sector do its job and stop regulating it.
bosses need to stop thinking about themselves, and start thinking of how to protest their employees, and how best suit their PPE needs
Tell people to back to work and stop encouraging people to skive
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The Economist prescription for failure. Or perhaps it is the surrender to China you look forward to.
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The idea that either Keynes' or Friedman's ideas should be a panacea is specious (though admittedly they both did), and detracts from the reality that in many contexts they both remain effective macroeconomic frameworks.
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