New consensus macroeconomics and inflation targeting: Keynesian critique

A number of countries have adopted Inflation Targeting (IT) since the early 1990s in an attempt to reduce inflation to low levels. Since then, IT has been praised by most literature as a superior framework of monetary policy. We suggest that IT is a major policy prescription closely associated with...

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Main Authors: Philip Arestis, Malcolm Sawyer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2008-12-01
Series:Economia e Sociedade
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-06182008000400006