Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Macro topic mind map
- Section A
- Macroeconomic history
- Seminar 1:
- Financial globalisation andits issues
- The key theoretical divide between Keynesiam and orhodoxy
- The current conjuncture between keynesiam and orthodoxy characterised by
the dominance of international flow and the subordination of certain aspects of
domestic policy sovereignty
- Seminar 2:
- Deeper historical issues 1970s and 1980s
- Demise of Bretton Woods and Rise of Policy orthodoxy
- Contrasts to the modern consensus (represented by
Goodfriend) with a brauder and deeper approach
(Arrighi)
- Section B
- Aggregate Supply: Technology, capital and
socio-political factors in the Long Run
- Seminar 3
- The process of Long Run growth and
Economic development
- Historical case study of USA catching up and forging ahead
- patterns of uneven development in 19th and 20th century
- Are countries best interests best served by embracing liberal
economic and political principles? If this is the case, is ‘uneven
development’ a matter of fate, exacerbated by bad policy. Or do
countries need to take their fates into their own hands and actively
adopt more ‘developmental policies’?
- Seminar 4
- Keynes I and Keynes II: ISLM and Beyond
- Seminar 5
- Keynesian Regulationist approach vs the New Consenus
- Section C
- Applications (Seminar 6-8)
- Decade prior to the financial crisis, orthodox
macro presented itself as:
- having achieved a new consensus regarding the most important issues
- deserving at least some credit for what came to be called the
‘Great Moderation’ (see Goodfriend, 2007; Bernanke and
Mishkin, 1997).
- Sense of achievement and
consensus emerged in developing
countries such as SA
- Pursuit of low infaltion
- Sem 6: renew the critique of the monetary consensus
- Inflation targeting
- Sem 7&8: Hetrodox extensions
- Basis of keynes I and his writing in 1920s
- Sem 7: Emerging literature on the
macro economics of the
developmental state
- Sem 8:
- Europe and constest the idea that
the Eurozon crisis reflects the failure
of social democracy