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Subject(s)

• Unemployment—Effect of inflation on—European Economic Community countries [Browse]
• European Economic Community countries—Economic policy [Browse]

Related name

• Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels, Belgium) [Browse]
• Emerson, Michael, 1940- [Browse]
• Boltho, Andrea [Browse]

Summary note

Article on stagflation (simultaneous unemployment and inflation) in steady state economy EC countries - reviews economic development trends and economic policies; outlines concepts of stagflation, (e.g. Analysing aggregate supply and demand); examines relations between labour market fluctuations, stabilization, and real wage determination, problems of uncontrollable growth rate in public expenditure, public sector deficit; questions reduced hours of work as a means of employment creation; suggests adjustments in monetary policy, etc.

Notes

Papers based on a conference organized by the Centre for European Policy Studies, held in Brussels, Dec. 1982.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• Economic policy and performance in Europe since the second oil shock / Andrea Boltho
• Stagflation in the EC countries 1973-1981 / Michael Bruno
• Wages, unemployment, and incomes policies / R. Layard, D. Grubb, and J. Symons
• Stabilization policy and wage formation in economies with strong trade unions / Lars Calmfors
• Current control problems with public expenditure in five European countries
• Victor Halberstadt, Kees Goudswaard, and Bart le Blanc
• The macroeconomic implications of public-sector deficits / Harmen Lehment
• The adaptation of working time as a response to the unemployment problem / Jean-Michel Charpin
• The European stagflation disease in international perspective and some possible therapy / Michael Emerson.

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ISBN

• 019828487X
• 9780198284871

LCCN

85101495

OCLC

11301632

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