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Inflation and the making of Australian macroeconomic policy, 1945-85 / Michael Beggs, University of Sydney.
- Title
- Inflation and the making of Australian macroeconomic policy, 1945-85 / Michael Beggs, University of Sydney.
- Author
- Beggs, Michael, 1979-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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- Description
- xii, 325 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- The emergence of macroeconomics profoundly changed Australian economic policy after World War II. Though governments and the central bank pursued full employment, they soon found themselves contending with chronic inflation, and the instruments were often turned to restraint. This book explains how the problem of inflation transformed policy between the 1940s and the 1980s, well before the era of the independent inflation-targeting central bank. It explains how inflation came to undermine full employment, how governments dealt with international monetary chaos, and how the central bank pursued restraint within a rapidly evolving financial system. This is a new interpretation of Australian policy history and the pre-history of 'neoliberalism'.
- Subject
- 1900 - 1999
- Inflation (Finance) > Australia
- Monetary policy > Australia
- Banks and banking > Australia
- Banks and banking
- Economic policy
- Inflation (Finance)
- Monetary policy
- Banks and banking
- Economic policy
- Monetary policy
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions
- Australia > Economic policy > 20th century
- Australia
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-313) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Inflation, the state and economic policy -- The long 1950s -- "External balance" and the counter-inflationary imperative -- Inflation and the keynesianism of restraint -- From the "battle for the banks" to the "credit sqeeze" : monetary policy in the long 1950s -- The long 1970s -- From bretton woods to the float -- Inflation and macroeconomic policy in the long 1970s -- Strengthening the central bank -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
- ISBN
- 9781137265968
- 1137265965
- LCCN
- ^^2015015157
- OCLC
- 908192674
- SCSB-10888368
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library