Capacity utilization, inflation, and monetary Policy: The Duménil and Lévy acro model and the new Keynesian consensus

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 586-598

  Lavoie, Marc ^a   Kriesler, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capacity utilization; Central bank; Inflation; Marxism; Monetary policy; New Keynesian

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148953977     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: 15528502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0486613407306824     Document Type: Article

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