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Productivity growth, inflation, and unemployment : the collected essays of Robert J. Gordon /

The 17 seminal essays by Robert J. Gordon collected here, including three previously unpublished works, offer views on the principal topics of macroeconomics - namely, growth, inflation, and unemployment. The author re-examines their salient points in a creative, accessible introduction that serves...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gordon, Robert J. (Robert James), 1940-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1. The history, theory, and measurement of productivity growth. Introduction
  • Does the "new economy" measure up to the great inventions of the past?:
  • Interpreting the "one big wave" in U.S. long-term productivity growth
  • The disappearance of productivity change
  • The concept of capital
  • Is there a tradeoff between unemployment and productivity growth?
  • Forward into the past : productivity retrogression in the electric generating industry
  • pt. 2. Interpreting productivity fluctuations over the business cycle. Introduction
  • Fresh water, salt water, and other macroeconomic elixirs
  • Are procyclical productivity fluctuations a figment of measurement error?
  • The jobless recovery : does it signal a new era of productivity-led growth?
  • pt. 3. The theory of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Introduction
  • Alternative responses of policy to external supply shocks
  • Supply shocks and monetary policy revisited
  • The theory of domestic inflation
  • The Phillips curve now and then
  • pt. 4. Empirical studies of inflation dynamics in the United States
  • pt. 4. Introduction
  • Can the Inflation of the 1970s be explained?
  • The output cost of disinflation in traditional and vector autoregressive models / with Stephen R. King
  • German and American wage and price dynamics : differences and common themes / with Wolfgang Franz
  • Foundations of the goldilocks economy : supply shocks and the time-varying NAIRU.