Essays about: "Keynesianism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word Keynesianism.

  1. 1. The Undemocratic Mandate of Economic Expertise

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Author : Ziad Alkirwy; [2021]
    Keywords : Science and Technology Studies; STS; Economics; 1970s; History of Ideas; Neoliberalism; Keynesianism; Social Liberalism; Friedman; Hayek; Keynes; Co-Production; Expertise; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates a pattern of co-production within the field of science and technology studies as it applies to economic ideas and events of the 20th century. The intellectual traditions of Keynesian social liberalism and neoliberalism are traced historically. READ MORE

  3. 2. How the story of control limits the reproduction of knowledge : a study of narratives in the Swedish Climate Policy Action Plan

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Jonas Linde; [2020]
    Keywords : Climate Change; Master narratives; Story of control; Discourse; Narratives; Storylines; Swedish climate policy; De-politicization; Apocalyptic imaginary; Frontrunner; Sweden; Green Keynesianism; Power; Knowledge; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Responses to combating worsening climate change are legitimized through narratives employed in government policy which build on existing master narratives about climate change produced in the subpolitics of international mega-science mainly influenced by IPCC as an expert authority. In Sweden the climate law forces the government to produce a Climate Policy Action Plan (CPAP) every four years that seeks to show how the set net zero emission target by 2045 is to be reached. READ MORE

  4. 3. The connection between household savings ratio and human development index : Which factors affect the household savings ratio?

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO)

    Author : Sanna Persson; Jerry Pettersson; [2019]
    Keywords : Household savings; human development index HDI ; fixed effect regression model; Keynesianism; Maslow´s behavioral pyramid; permanent income hypothesis;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates which factors affecting savings behavior by using a fixed effect regression model. To see what affects the household savings rate the following independent variables is considered: Natural logarithm of trend per capita income, natural logarithm of deviation from trend per capita income, growth of disposable income, real interest rate, inflation, wealth in relation to household disposable income, foreign savings in relation to disposable income, dependency ratio and human development index. READ MORE

  5. 4. Mapping Keynesian, Neoliberal and Social Investment ideals: The Swedish Social Democratic Party's welfare ideology from 1948 - 2014

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Cornelia Leander; [2018]
    Keywords : Keynesianism; Neoliberalism; Social Investment; Welfare; Ideology; The Swedish Social Democratic Party; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis asks how developments in The Swedish Social Democratic Party’s welfare ideology over the past 70 years can be understood, using the conceptual lenses of Keynesian, Neoliberal and Social Investment welfare ideals. To answer this question, the thesis models a tailor-made seminal analytical tool; a code scheme of numerous operational indicators for Keynesian, Neoliberal and Social Investment welfare ideals. READ MORE

  6. 5. Setting the Pace of Capitalism - A Post-Keynesian Perspective on Interest and Profits as a Monetary Phenomenon

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Tune Nielsen; [2017]
    Keywords : History of economic thought; post-Keynesianism; monetary theory of interest; endogenous money; Silvio Gesell; John Maynard Keynes; Knut Wicksell; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Financial markets turn all their attention towards the Federal Reserve Bank and the European Central Bank whenever there are the slightest rumors of a change in the policy rate of interest. But why is this rate so important and what is the theoretical basis of its existence in the first place? In modern economic literature theories of interest are rarely explicitly touched upon and interest is often simply taken for granted in most textbooks. READ MORE