Second Preparatory Committee Session for FfD4

UNU-WIDER at the Second Preparatory Committee Session for the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development

UNU-WIDER contributes to policy recommendations for the G20

Sub-Saharan Africa faces an alarming debt burden that could hinder progress on sustainable development goals

COVID-19 pandemic, household welfare and diversification strategies of smallholder farmers in Uganda

The billionaire tax – a (modest) proposal for the 21st century by Gabriel Zucman

WIDER Annual Lecture 28 Brief

UNU-WIDER launches a free online training course in tax-benefit microsimulation for Global South countries

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Animal Spirits
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Tony Addison 'Birds of a feather flock together', the old saying goes. So too do investors. Today, those investment birds are a depressed lot. The...

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Post-Keynesian Theorists and the theory of Economic Development

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Profit Squeeze and Keynesian Theory

This chapter explores one aspect of the relationship between the system of production and the macroeconomic structure, namely, the role of profitability in determining investment demand and the level of economic activity. Within the system of...

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Commodity Instability and Developing Countries

The significance of commodity price instability for the economic development of commodity-exporting countries has been perhaps the dominant theme in the postwar literature on the "commodity problem". One of the contending postwar views of the...

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What Did You Do in the Currency Wars? (Part I)
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Tony Addison The present currency turmoil is both a symptom and a cause of profound changes now underway in the global economy. In part 1 of this two...

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Walras' Law

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Countercyclical Fiscal Policy

For many emerging market economies, over reliance on monetary policy may bring worse macro results, when compared to a more balanced framework of countercyclical fiscal and monetary policy. The use of countercyclical fiscal policy requires as a...

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Reconstructing Keynesian Economics With Imperfect Competition

The main arguments of this book are almost certain to create controversy and lead to a fundamental reassessment of Keynesian economics. Building on his previous work on modern capitalism, Robin Marris has made theoretical advance which should have a...

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Profit Squeeze and Keynesian Theory

Part of Book Golden Age of Capitalism

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Keynesian theories

Invited Guest Lecturer, Yongfu Huang, Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER on 'Keynesian Theories'. The lecture is on Keynesian theories of economic fluctuations covering the topics of nominal stickiness, demand shocks, market failures, imperfect information...

Thu, 25 October 2012
University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Countercyclical Fiscal Policy

Part of Book From Capital Surges to Drought

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History of Thought

Part of Book Reconstructing Keynesian Economics With Imperfect Competition

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What is Meant by Keynesian

Part of Book Reconstructing Keynesian Economics With Imperfect Competition

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Modelling Imperfect Condition

Part of Book Reconstructing Keynesian Economics With Imperfect Competition

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Computers, Humans and Economics

Part of Book Reconstructing Keynesian Economics With Imperfect Competition

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Setting the Stage

Part of Book Reconstructing Keynesian Economics With Imperfect Competition

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