A critical reconsideration of the foundations of monetary policy in the new consensus macroeconomics framework

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 761-779

  Arestis, Philip ^a   Sawyer, Malcolm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interest rates; Monetary policy; New consensus in macroeconomics

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; INTEREST RATE; MACROECONOMICS; MONETARY POLICY;

EID: 51349092090     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/ben004     Document Type: Article

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