A Macroeconomic Regime for the 21st Century

Christopher Taylor is a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London. He worked as an economist at the Bank of England for 20 years until 1994, including a secondment as UK Alternate Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, 1981-3. Since 2008 he has been a lecturer and tutor for the MBA elective course on International Macroeconomics at the Judge Business School, Cambridge, where he is an Honorary Fellow.

1. Introduction: To Utopia and Back 2. The Demise of Economic Management 3. The Monetarist Experiment and its Legacy 4. The 1990s Synthesis 5. Problems under the 1990s Synthesis 6. The Global Financial Crisis 7. Monetary Policy 8. Fiscal Policy 9. Exchange Rate Policy 10. Review and Assesment