Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

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Economic Policy and Performance in Industrial Democracies

by Takayuki Sakamoto

Published 24 September 1998

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