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Wynne Godley – a Bibliography Wynne Godley – A Bibliography Papers 1959 ‘Costs, Prices and Demand in the Short Run’, reprinted in M.J.C. Surrey (ed.), Macroeconomic Themes: Edited Readings in Macroeconomics with Commentaries (London: Oxford University Press, 1976) 1964 (with C. Gillion) ‘Measuring National Product’, National Institute Economic Review, February (with J.R. Shepherd) ‘Long-term Growth and Short-term Policy’, National Institute Economic Review, August (with C. Gillion) ‘Pricing Behaviour in the Engineering Industry’, National Institute Economic Review, August (with D.A. Rowe) ‘Retail and Consumer Prices 1955–1963’, National Institute Economic Review, November 1965 (with W.A.B. Hopkin) ‘An Analysis of Tax Changes’, National Institute Economic Review, May (with J.R. Shepherd) ‘Forecasting Imports’, National Institute Economic Review, August (with C. Gillion) ‘Pricing Behaviour in Manufacturing Industry’, National Institute Economic Review, August 1972 (with W.D. Nordhaus) ‘Pricing in the Trade Cycle’, Economic Journal, 82(327) (September): 853–82 (with J. Rhodes) ‘The Rate Support Grant System’, Proceedings of a Conference on Local Government Finance, Institute of Fiscal Studies, Publication no. 10 1973 (with T.F. Cripps) ‘Balance of Payments and Demand Management’, London and Cambridge Economic Bulletin, no. 82, January 1974 ‘Demand, Inflation and Economic Policy’, London and Cambridge Economic Bulletin, no. 84, January ‘The Concept of a Par Economy in Medium-term Analysis’, in G.D.N. Worswick and F.T. Blackbaby (eds) The Medium Term: Models of the British Economy (London: Heinemann) 377 378 Wynne Godley – A Bibliography 1975 (with A. Wood) ‘Profits and Stock Appreciation’, Economic Policy Review, no. 1, February 1976 (with T.F. Cripps) ‘A Formal Analysis of the Cambridge Economic Policy Group Model’, Economica, 43(172) (November): 335–48 (with T.F. Cripps and M.J. Fetherston) ‘What is Left of New Cambridge?’, Chapter 6, Economic Policy Review, no. 2, March ‘The Measurement and Control of Public Expenditure’, Chapter 8, Economic Policy Review, no. 2, March 1977 ‘Inflation in the United Kingdom’, in L.B. Krause and W.S. Salant (eds), Worldwide Inflation: Theory and Recent Experience (Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1977) (with C. Taylor) ‘Measuring the Effect of Public Expenditure’, in M. Posner (ed.), Public Expenditure (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977) (with A. McFarquhar and D. Silvey) ‘The Cost of Food and Britain’s Membership of the EEC’, Economic Policy Review, no. 3, March, chapter 3 (with R. May) ‘The Macroeconomic Implications of Devaluation and Import Restriction’, Economic Policy Review, no. 3, March, chapter 2 1978 (with M.J. Fetherstone) ‘“New Cambridge” Macroeconomics and Global Monetarism: Some Issues in the Conduct of UK Economic Policy’, in K. Brunner and A.H. Meltzer (eds), Public Policies in Open Economies, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, vol. 9(1): 33–65 (with T.F. Cripps) ‘Control of Imports as a Means to Full Employment and the Expansion of World Trade: the UK’s Case’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2(3): 327–34 (with K.J. Coutts and W.D. Nordhaus) ‘Industrial Pricing in the United Kingdom’, University of Cambridge Department of Applied Economics, Monograph 26 (London: Cambridge University Press) (with T.F. Cripps and M.J. Fetherstone) ‘Simulations with the CEPG Model’, in M. Posner (ed.), Demand Management (London: Heinemann) (with R. Bacon and A. McFarquhar) ‘The Direct Costs to Britain of Belonging to the EEC’, Economic Policy Review, no. 4, chapter 5, March 1979 ‘Britain’s Chronic Recession – Can Anything Be Done?’, in W. Beckerman (ed.), Slow Growth in Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 226–35 1981 ‘Monetarism is Three Countries: United Kingdom’, in D. Crane (ed.), Beyond the Monetarists: Post-Keynesian Alternatives to Rampant Inflation, Low Growth and High Unemployment (Toronto: James Lorimer), pp. 36–41 Wynne Godley – A Bibliography 379 1983 ‘Keynes and the Management of Real National Income and Expenditure’, in D. Worswick and J. Trevithick (eds) Keynes and the Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 135–56 (with T.F. Cripps) Macroeconomics (London: Fontana) (with M. Anyadike-Danes) ‘Nominal Income Determination, Financial Assets and Liabilities and Fiscal Policy’, Brazilian Review of Econometrics, 3(2): 105–30 1984 ‘Confusion in Economic Theory and Policy – Is There a Way Out?’, in J. Cornwall (ed.), After Stagflation: Alternatives to Economic Decline (Oxford: Basil Blackwell), pp. 63–85 1985 (with K.J. Coutts and G.D. Gudgin) ‘Inflation Accounting of Whole Economic System’, Studies in Banking and Finance, 9(2) ‘Unemployment in Europe: the Strategic Problem of the Mid Eighties’, Neuer Protektionismus in der Weltwirtschaft und EG-Handelspolitik: Jahreskolloquium, pp. 99–108 1987 (with N.M. Christodoulakis) ‘A Dynamic Model for the Analysis of Trade Policy Options’, Journal of Policy Modeling, no. 9 (with M. Anyadike-Danes) ‘A Stock Adjustment Model of Income Determination with Inside Money and Private Debt’, in M. De Cecco and J.P. Fitoussi (eds), Monetary Theory and Economic Institutions (London: Macmillan) (with N.M. Christodoulakis) ‘Macroeconomic Consequences of Alternative Trade Policy Options’, Journal of Policy Modeling, 9(3): 405–36 1988 ‘The Sensibility of Contemporary Institutions’, Theology, March, 91(740): 89–94 1989 (with G. Zezza) ‘Foreign Debt, Foreign Trade and Living Conditions, with Special Reference to Denmark’, Nationalokonomisk Tidsskrift, 127(2): 229–35 (with M. Anyadike-Danes) ‘Real Wages and Employment: A Sceptical View of Some Recent Empirical Work’, The Manchester School, 57(2): 172–87 (with M. Anyadike-Danes) ‘Real Wages and Employment: Response to Nickell’s Comment’, The Manchester School, 57(3): 285 ‘The British Economy during the Thatcher Era’, Economics, 25(108) (Winter): 159–62 (with K.J. Coutts) ‘The British Economy Under Mrs Thatcher’, The Political Quarterly, 60(2) (April–June): 137–51 1990 (with K.J. Coutts, R. Rowthorn and G. Zezza) ‘Britain’s Economic Problems and Policies in the 1990s’, Economic Study no. 6 (London: Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)) 380 Wynne Godley – A Bibliography (with K.J. Coutts) ‘Prosperity and Foreign Trade in the 1990s: Britain’s Strategic Problem’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 6(3) (Autumn): 82–92 ‘The British Economy Under Mrs. Thatcher: A Rejoinder’, The Political Quarterly, 61(1): 101–2 1992 (with G. Zezza) ‘A Simple Real Stock Flow Model Illustrated with the Danish Economy’, in H. Brink (ed.), Themes in Modern Macroeconomics (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan), ch. 8, pp. 140–79 ‘Godley, Wynne (born 1926)’, in P. Arestis and M. Sawyer (eds), A Biograph- i cal Dictionary of Dissenting Economists (Aldershot: Edward Elgar), pp. 193–201 ‘Britain and the Danger of the EMU’, Samfundsokonomen, no. 7, November (with K.J. Coutts) ‘Does Britain’s Balance of Payments Matter Anymore?’, in J. Michie (ed.), The Economic Legacy: 1979–1992 (London: Academic Press), pp. 60–7 (with K.J. Coutts and J.G. Palma) ‘The British Economy under Mrs. Thatcher’, Economic Bulletin for Latin America ‘The Godley Papers: Economic Problems and Policies in the 1980s and 90s’ (London: New Statesman and Society) 1993 ‘Time, Increasing Returns and Institutions in Macroeconomics’, in S. Biasco, A. Roncaglia and M. Salvati (eds), Market and Institutions in Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Paolo Sylos Labini (New York: St. Martin’s Press) 1994 (with W. Milberg) ‘US Trade Deficits: The Recovery’s Dark Side?’, Challenge 37(6): 40–7 (with B. Rowthorn) ‘Appendix; The Dynamics of Public Sector Deficit and Debt’, in J. Michie and J. Grieve Smith (eds), Unemployment in Europe (London: Academic Press), pp. 199–206 1995 ‘The US Balance of Payments, International Indebtedness, and Economic Policy’, Levy Institute Public Policy Brief, no. 23 1997 (with G. McCarthy) ‘The Boskin Commission’s Trillion-Dollar Fantasy’, Challenge, 40(3): pp. 14–21 1998 (with G. McCarthy) ‘Fiscal Policy Will Matter.’, Challenge, 41(1) ( January– February): 38–54 1999 (with B. Martin) ‘America’s New Era’, Economic Outlook, 24(1) (October): 14–19 (with L.R. Wray) ‘Can Goldilocks Survive?’, Levy Institute Policy Note 1999/4 ‘How Negative Can US Saving Get?’, Levy Institute Policy Note 1999/1 Wynne Godley – A Bibliography 381 ‘Money and Credit in a Keynesian Model of Income Determination’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 23(4): 393–411 ‘Seven Unsustainable Processes: Medium Term Prospects and Policies for the US and World’, Levy Institute Strategic Analysis, January 2000 ‘Drowning in Debt’, Levy Institute Policy Note 2000/6 ‘Interim Report: Notes on the US Trade and Balance of Payments Deficits’, Levy Institute Strategic Analysis, January (with L.R. Wray) ‘Is Goldilocks Doomed?’, Journal of Economic Issues, 34(1) (March): 201–6 2001 (with A. Izurieta) ‘As the Implosion Begins...? Prospects and Policies for the US Economy: A Strategic View’, Levy Institute Strategic Analysis, July (with A. Izurieta) ‘“As the Implosion Begins...?”: A Rejoinder to Goldman Sachs’ J. Hatzius ‘The Un-Godley Private Sector Deficit’ in US Economic Analyst (27 July)’, Levy Institute Strategic Analysis, August ‘Fiscal Policy to the Rescue’, Levy Institute Policy Note 2001/1 ‘The Developing Recession in the United States’, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, 54(219): pp. 417–25 (with A. Izurieta) ‘The Developing US Recession and Guidelines for Policy’, Levy Institute Strategic Analysis, October (with M. Lavoie) ‘Kaleckian Models of Growth in a Coherent Stock-flow Monetary Framework: A Kaldorian View’, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 24(2) (Winter): 277–311 2002 (with A. Izurieta) ‘The Case for a Severe Recession’, Challenge, 45(2) (April): 27–51 (with A. Shaikh) ‘An Important Inconsistency at the Heart of the Standard Macroeconomic Model’, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 24(3) (Spring): 423–41 ‘Kick-start Strategy Fails to Fire Sputtering US Economic Motor’, Levy Institute Policy Note 2002/1 (with A. Izurieta) ‘Strategic Prospects and Policies for the US Economy’, Levy Institute Strategic Analysis, April 2003 ‘Sauver Masud Kahn’, Revue française de psychoanalyse, 67(3): 1015–28 (with A. Izurieta) ‘Coasting on the Lending Bubble.
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