The global economic crisis - challenge to economic concepts and policies - what next
Journal
ANNUAL OF THE FACULTY OF ECONOMICS SKOPJE
Date Issued
2014
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Abstract
The end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty first century
were marked by a general consideration in the economic science (numerous
books, papers, public debates, conferences etc.) that there were no serious
threats of large economic fluctuations, that the business cycle was “dead”,
and that the economic policy was able to successfully handle any challenge.
However, the contemporary economic crisis spread doubt on those views,
thus endangering not only the fundaments of economic policy, but also their
theoretical foundation. The global economic crisis actualized the issues
and dilemmas concerning the designing of the key macroeconomic policies
– their mutual interactions, as well as their efficiency and effects on the
macroeconomic environment. This paper clearly shows the gap between
economic theory and economic policy that was made by the global crisis;
the paper determines that the Keynesian economic theory was a dominant
part in economic policies undertaken when crisis appears; at the end the
paper provides an answer that the question of whether to choose the state or
the market, the Keynesianism or neoliberalism is primarily determined by
the actual situation in each economy, region, continent and globally. Also it
should be noted that the optimal mix of economic concepts represents a major
determinant of both the efficiency of economic policies and the problemsolving in economic practice.
were marked by a general consideration in the economic science (numerous
books, papers, public debates, conferences etc.) that there were no serious
threats of large economic fluctuations, that the business cycle was “dead”,
and that the economic policy was able to successfully handle any challenge.
However, the contemporary economic crisis spread doubt on those views,
thus endangering not only the fundaments of economic policy, but also their
theoretical foundation. The global economic crisis actualized the issues
and dilemmas concerning the designing of the key macroeconomic policies
– their mutual interactions, as well as their efficiency and effects on the
macroeconomic environment. This paper clearly shows the gap between
economic theory and economic policy that was made by the global crisis;
the paper determines that the Keynesian economic theory was a dominant
part in economic policies undertaken when crisis appears; at the end the
paper provides an answer that the question of whether to choose the state or
the market, the Keynesianism or neoliberalism is primarily determined by
the actual situation in each economy, region, continent and globally. Also it
should be noted that the optimal mix of economic concepts represents a major
determinant of both the efficiency of economic policies and the problemsolving in economic practice.
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