Hansen Fiscal Policy & Business Cycles

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-50584-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten

Written during the Second World War against the background of the economic and political futility of the 1930s, this book deals with the changing role of government, and particularly fiscal policy as an instrument for regulating the national income and its distribution. Arguing that the war had an economic basis - the inability of the great industrial nations to provide full employment at rising standards of real income - the book discusses how the failure to achieve a world order in the political sphere must be sought in the facts of economic frustration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hansen, Alvin H

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I



1. Ends and Means in Economic Policy

2. The Means of Fiscal Policy

3. The Balance of the Budget

4. Economic Fluctuations and the Budget

5. On Incidence

6. A Classification of the Means of Fiscal Policy



Part II



7. Planning by Households

8. The Effects of Taxation on the Consumption and Saving Plans of Households

9. Further Observations on Fiscal Policy and Household Planning

10. The Importance of Fiscal Policy for Planning by Firms

11. Organization and Fiscal Policy



Part III



12. Stable Value of Money and Full Employment

13. Neutral Fiscal Policy

14. Direct versus Indirect Taxation

15. Fiscal policy and Internal Disturbances

16. Long-Term Problems of Fiscal Policy

17. Fiscal Policy and Wage Policy

18. Views on Fiscal Policy and Foreign Trade

Full Employment and a Stable Value of Money in a World of Uncertainty