Political economy, especially analysis that emphasizes incentives and knowledge, can offer insights about which rules for monetary policy would best help to stabilize the macroeconomy and prevent disasters such as the recent financial crisis. It can also tell us something about which monetary rules are more likely to be implemented.
Some Political Economy of Monetary Rules
By Alexander William Salter
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article
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the Winter 2016/17 issue of The Independent Review.
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