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William Scarth

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Professor EmeritusArts & ScienceMcMaster University

Research

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49 publications.

01

Fiscal Policy Can Raise Both Employment and Productivity

Scarth W

International Productivity Monitor1 citationsFirst author
02

Does a Current-Account Deficit Indicate Bad Economic Policy?

Scarth W

2022First author
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11240-9_9
03

Investing in Health: A Macroeconomic Exploration of Short-Run and Long-Run Trade-Offs

Zhao J, Hurley JE, Scarth W

Atlantic Economic Journal2018
DOI: 10.1007/s11293-018-9573-y
04

Employment insurance: A macroeconomic comparison with other income-support initiatives

Scarth W

2012First author
05

Aggregate Demand-Supply Analysis and Its Critics: An Evaluation of the Controversy

Scarth W

Review of Radical Political Economics2010First author
DOI: 10.1177/0486613410377621
06

An Evaluation of the Working Income Tax Benefit

Scarth W, Tang L

Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques20082 citationsFirst author
DOI: 10.3138/cpp.34.1.025
07

Some Macroeconomic Consequences of Basic Income and Employment Subsidies

Moutos T, Scarth W

20032 citationsSenior author
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.396460
08

Some macroeconomic consequences of basic income and employment subsidies

Moutos T, Scarth W

20031 citationsSenior author
09

Is policy perversity consistent with Keynesian business cycles?

Myatt A, Scarth WM

Journal of Macroeconomics2003Senior author
DOI: 10.1016/s0164-0704(03)00042-9
10

Technical Change and Unemployment: Policy Responses and Distributional Considerations

Moutos T, Scarth W

2002Senior author

Courses taught

1

  • Economics: Principles and Policy

    ARTSSCI 2E03 · last taught 2017

    Undergraduate

Frequent collaborators

2
William ScarthFrank Trevor DentonJeremiah Hurley
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Jeremiah Hurley

Economics

1 shared papers, latest 2018

Frank Trevor Denton

Economics

1 shared papers, latest 1993

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Finance & Business Economics

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Political Science

Economic Theory and Policy

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