 | Economic Policy and Performance in Industrial Democracies: Party Governments, Central Banks and the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Comparative Politics; International Political Economy; Economics; History; Macroeconomics; Political Economy; Economic History; This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party governments and central banks affect the fiscal-policy mix in eighteen industrial democracies in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Oceania. Sakamoto argues that central banks influence on economic policy is far mor |
