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Conclusion

In: Inflation and the Making of Australian Macroeconomic Policy, 1945–85

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  • Michael Beggs

    (University of Sydney)

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This book has traced the history of Australian macroeconomic policy from one policy ‘revolution’ to the cusp of another. As discussed in Chapter 1, it is undeniable that World War II marks a major break in policy continuity. (The extent to which it should be described as ‘Keynesian’ is a more complicated question (Leijonhufvud, 1968; Robinson, 1973; Chick, 1983, pp. 1–12; Laidler, 1999).) Governments and policymakers accepted responsibility for the pursuit of price stability and full employment, while re-committing to a fixed exchange rate. The new discipline of macroeconomics helped to organise policy coherence, however imperfectly. In Australia, the size of the public sector relative to the economy jumped during the war, and the Commonwealth Bank was granted central banking powers, which were continued for peacetime in the 1945 banking legislation. So policy now had more capacity to act macroeconomically, along with the economic theory to guide its strategy.

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  • Michael Beggs, 2015. "Conclusion," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Inflation and the Making of Australian Macroeconomic Policy, 1945–85, chapter 8, pages 247-277, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-26597-5_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137265975_8
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