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Compare the positions of the New Classicals and New Keynesians regarding: (a) market competition; (b) flexibility of prices and wages and (c) speed of price and wage adjustments.  

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Rajiv Y. Tanna 25th February '03 Money & Banking; Coursework Essay; Dr. Dimitrios Asteriou. Compare the positions of the New Classicals and New Keynesians regarding: (a) market competition; (b) flexibility of prices and wages and (c) speed of price and wage adjustments. According to the New Classical view, what can be accomplished with an activist monetary policy? Why? (b) Compare the positions of the New Classicals and New Keynesians regarding: flexibility of prices and wages and (c) speed of price and wage adjustments. Classical and Keynesian economists - although agreeing on many points - differ primarily in their views on how rapidly prices and wages adjust to restore general equilibrium after an economic shock. Neo-Classical economists maintain that all markets clear immediately, they assume that prices and wages adjust quickly to equate quantities supplied and demanded in each market and therefore output is maintained at full employment level which therefore produces the vertical long run Phillips...

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