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Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies

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Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies - Iversen, Torben
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This book helps explain one of the most intriguing and politically salient puzzles in comparative political economy: why some countries have much higher unemployment rates than others. Contrary to new classical economics the focus is on explaining distribution and equilibrium unemployment, and contrary to neo-corporatist theory the role of monetary policy and rational expectation is integral to the analysis. The book makes two central arguments. The first is that monetary policies affect equilibrium employment whenever ...

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Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies 1999, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521645324

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Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies 1999, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521642262

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