A Comparative Examination of the Nature of Change in Macroeconomic Policies

Jon Hogan
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Jon Hogan: Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier Street, Dublin, Ireland

Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 2010, vol. 36, 4

Abstract: This article examines the impact of economic crises on macroeconomic policies in Ireland in the late 1950s and Sweden in the early 1980s, framed within the context of the policy change literature. Each of these countries? responses to the crises affecting them, tempered as they were by historical and political factors, provides valuable insights into their political economies. These findings enable us to compare and contrast the nature of each crisis and the policy responses adopted. The value of such comparison is in the perspective it offers, contributing to the goal of building a body of increasingly complete explanatory theory (Mahler, 1995).

JEL-codes: E65 F50 P16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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