The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics

Lessons from Japan's Great Recession

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  • The
  • revised
  • edition
  • of
  • this
  • highly
  • acclaimed
  • work
  • presents
  • crucial
  • lessons
  • from
  • Japan's
  • recession
  • that
  • could
  • aid
  • the
  • US
  • and
  • other
  • economies
  • as
  • they
  • struggle
  • to
  • recover
  • from
  • the
  • current
  • financial
  • crisis.This
  • book
  • is
  • about
  • Japan's
  • 15-year
  • long
  • recession
  • and
  • how
  • it
  • affected
  • current
  • theoretical
  • thinking
  • about
  • its
  • causes
  • and
  • cures.
  • It
  • has
  • a
  • detailed
  • explanation
  • on
  • what
  • happened
  • to
  • Japan,
  • but
  • the
  • discoveries
  • made
  • are
  • so
  • far-reaching
  • that
  • a
  • large
  • portion
  • of
  • economics
  • literature
  • will
  • have
  • to
  • be
  • modified
  • to
  • accommodate
  • another
  • half
  • to
  • the
  • macroeconomic
  • spectrum
  • of
  • possibilities
  • that
  • conventional
  • theorists
  • have
  • overlooked.The
  • author
  • developed
  • the
  • idea
  • of
  • yin
  • and
  • yang
  • business
  • cycles
  • where
  • the
  • conventional
  • world
  • of
  • profit
  • maximization
  • is
  • the
  • yang
  • and
  • the
  • world
  • of
  • balance
  • sheet
  • recession,
  • where
  • companies
  • are
  • minimizing
  • debt,
  • is
  • the
  • yin.
  • Once
  • so
  • divided,
  • many
  • varied
  • theories
  • developed
  • in
  • macro
  • economics
  • since
  • the
  • 1930s
  • can
  • be
  • nicely
  • categorized
  • into
  • a
  • single
  • comprehensive
  • theory-
  • The
  • Holy
  • Grail
  • of
  • Macro Economics
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