A ‘Modest Proposal’ for Taming Speculators and Putting the World on Course to Prosperity

Geoffrey Harcourt

Chapter 18 in Selected Essays on Economic Policy, 2001, pp 255-262 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Following the Horne Address and its sequel on macroeconomic policy for Australia in the 1990s [Chapters 16 and 17 this volume], I wrote a jokey paper with a serious intent for the undergraduate Marshall Society journal at Cambridge, my plan to ‘save’ the world. In this essay I go over some of the arguments in these three papers, and expand them into a discussion of possible policies for the United Kingdom and Europe in particular, though I continue to argue for the need to take a world perspective and to call for international institutions and cooperation.

Keywords: Exchange Rate; Central Bank; Foreign Exchange; Housing Market; Taxation Authority (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230510562_18

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