Overview
- Explores the economics of employment, real GDP, and aggregate demand
- Analyzes aggregate demand in the context of economic recessions and insufficient recoveries
- Breaks down the economic importance of the velocity of money
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Why do policymakers allow economies to settle into a “new normal” after a bad break in the economy rather than try to return the economy to its previous trend? In this book, economist Harrison C. Hartman discusses some of the variables that impact a nation’s ability to recover from negative aggregate demand shocks.
Spanning total real GDP, per capita real GDP, and nonfarm payroll employment in the USA, the book emphasizes the role of aggregate demand shocks in causing the US economy to fail to return to trend. The resulting book challenges modern mainstream macroeconomic theories and highlights the complexities of post-recession recovery. The chapters provide econometric evidence both for and against the impact of aggregate demand on real GDP and employment levels in the long run.
Hartman studies modern macroeconomic theories related to economic resilience and demand using (a) the velocity of money and the equation of exchange and (b) econometric analysis to dissect modern macroeconomic theories related to economic resilience and demand. The book provides methods to estimate and evaluate trends, and after simple methods for estimating trend and discussing associated results, the book turns attention to model selection, hypothesis testing and further results. This book also offers some possible areas for future work.
A thought-provoking exploration of economic recovery or lack thereof, the book covers aggregate demand, employment, real GDP, and economic theories (classical, Keynesian, monetarist, neoclassical, new-Keynesian, and post-Keynesian perspectives). Bad Breaks in Real GDP and Employment is a timely and essential guide for economists navigating the complexities of past, present, and future macroeconomic landscapes. It explains the functionality of aggregate demand in the context of economic recession, offering insight into why some AD shocks feel permanent.
This book provides econometric evidence supporting Keynesian and post-Keynesian perspectives on the potential importance of aggregate demand in determining real GDP and employment levels in the long run, particularly in cases when real GDP and employment fail to recover fully after recessions.
This book is one of few contemporary works (a) explicitly noting the economic importance of money velocity and (b) focusing on econometric analysis that at least at times supports post-Keynesian perspectives.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“In an era when the marginal cost of conducting various statistical tests has approached zero, an alarmingly large proportion of empirical work is less a test among competing hypotheses than an illustration that the data can be made to confess if tortured sufficiently. Hartman's refreshing book represents a break from this trend as he leaves us with many puzzles in the data which deserve attention if we are to advance current thinking. It will be fertile ground for emerging scholars ready to plow new ground.” (Raymond E. Lombra, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Penn State University)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Harrison C. Hartman is an economist who has taught at Emory University, Georgia State University, University of Georgia, Kennesaw State University, Ursinus College, and Penn State University. He is the author of It's Velocity Stupid! (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bad Breaks in Real GDP and Employment
Book Subtitle: Exploring the Persistence of Aggregate Demand Shocks in the United States
Authors: Harrison C. Hartman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57769-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57768-0Published: 01 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57771-0Due: 02 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-57769-7Published: 31 May 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 132
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Economic Policy, Econometrics, Labor Economics