Money and Inflation A New Macroeconomic Analysis

Rossi (economics, Universities of Fribourg and Lugano) presents a new theory connecting money and output. Analyzing inflation from a macroeconomics perspective, the role of money is described in terms of value, price, profit, and capital accumulation. Rossi argues that an understanding of inflation must be grounded on a view of the formation (and not the distribution) of national income. He then proposes structural reforms of modern banking systems and outlines an original macro-theoretical investigation of measurement problems in price index theory. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR