Year: 1982
Type: report
Abstract: Throughout the industrialized world, macroeconomic performance since the mid-l970s has been very poor, and the prospects in the near term remain bleak.While there is no consensus among macroeconomists regarding the diagnosis (or cure) of these ills, the major competing schools of thought have focussed most of their blame on macroeconomic policy.This paper summarizes a series of studies, in collaboration with Michael Bruno, suggesting rather that supply shocks coupled with real wage rigidities are a central source of the poor macroeconomic performance.Various hypotheses are mentioned as a source for the resistance to real wage cuts, and some illustrations of the policy implications of supply shocks are provided.
DOI: 10.3386/w0862
Author: Jeffrey Sachs
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1525905702