Macroeconomic Policies of Developed Democracies

Bibliographic Data

ID9720534
AuthorsF Gulcin Ozkan (0000-0001-7652-1361, University of York, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume113
Issue491
PagesF685-F686
Publication date2003-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1046/j.0013-0133.2003.172_18.x
OpenAlexW1978661418
LanguageEN
Citations received18

The role of political economy factors in the making of macroeconomic policies has received a great deal of attention over the past three decades. This book does an almost unique job of utilising the tools developed by this literature in an attempt to interpret the differences as well as the similarities in the macroeconomic policies of the developed democracies in the post war period. In doing that, the author also extends the existing knowledge on the interactions between the institutional structures and macroeconomic performance in general. The material presented by this book is organised around five chapters, three of which are the main analysis chapters. The first part of the book‐ apart from the introductory chapter 1‐ is devoted to fiscal issues. The first fiscal issue that the author takes up is the political and the institutional determinants of social insurance. Appropriately, the next chapter turns to an in‐depth analysis

Economic policy · Economics · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy

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