Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128777 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 240
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
There are large differences between Steindl's ideas on growth policies and the Brussels/Paris consensus. Steindl called for innovation and education policies, the mainstream today rather favours deregulation and privatisation. Steindl stressed the positive demand-side effects of the public sector and the contribution of lower household savings and anti-cyclical policies to growth. The economic mainstream praises the efficiency effects of a declining public sector, the importance of high savings for investment and warns of active anti-cyclical policies being an impediment to budget consolidation. Steindl and the Keynesians regarded the labour market situation as a consequence of economic growth. Today many economists see low growth as a result of labour market rigidities.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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