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When Is It Rational to Learn the Wrong Lessons? Technocratic Authority, Social Learning, and Euro Fragility

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ID7954501
AutoresMatthias Matthijs (0000-0001-8628-745X), Mark Blyth (0000-0001-7782-6183)
Año2018
Volumen16
Número1
Páginas110-126
Fecha de publicación2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPerspectives on Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1537592717002171
OpenAlexW2754080204
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas60
Referencias citadas48

Why do bad policy ideas persist over time? We trace the development of the euro’s governing ideas over fiscal and monetary policy in the face of mounting evidence that continued adherence to those ideas was economically deleterious. We argue that a specific form of social learning, framed by a retrospective recoding in 2010–2012 of Europe’s experience with fiscal rules in 2003–2005, drove European elites to pursue policies that were economically irrational but politically rational. As a result, the Eurozone’s medium-term resilience has been made possible by the European Central Bank’s unconventional and loose monetary policies, which operate in direct opposition to the tight fiscal policies of its member states’ governments. We maintain that this self-defeating macroeconomic policy mix will continue as long as the lessons learned by policymakers are driven by the need to win what we term an authority contest, rather than provide better macroeconomic outcomes

CONTEST · Economic policy · Economics · Fiscal policy · Irrational number · Macroeconomics · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Technocracy · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Global Financial Crisis and Policies · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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