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POLITICAL ASPECTS OF DEFLATIONARY POLICY IN CROATIA

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Brojni političari i makroekonomisti smatraju da je fiskalna deflacija dobra za financijsku stabilnost i ekonomski rast. Naše je mišljenje da deflacijska politika negativno djeluje na output i zaposlenost te da su politički aspekti deflacijskih politika mnogo važniji. Deflacijske politike produbile su krizu upravljanja državama i problem političkog legitimiteta. Politika pune zaposlenosti poželjna je s aspekta političke stabilnosti i društvene kohezije. Sve je jasnije da bi mnoge evropske zemlje, uključujući i Hrvatsku, morale ponovno dogovoriti temeljne društvene sporazume. No političke elite zauzete su kratkoročnim rješenjima, nastavljaju s deflacijskim politikama, koje imaju negativne redistribucijske učinke, i ne shvaćaju da postoji dugoročna potreba za ovakvim promjenama društvenih ugovora – na vlastitu štetu i uz znatan gubitak demokratskog legitimiteta. Za stvaranje široke potpore za novi društveni ugovor od ključne važnosti bit će potrebni – ne samo podrška glavnih političkih stranaka i tehnokrata već velika koalicija ojačana izborima, odnosno konstitucionalnim oblicima kontrole političara od strane građana kako bi se spriječila politička korupcija – već i zahtjev za uspostavom društvene pravednosti, a ne samo fiskalne stabilnosti.Many politicians and macroeconomists claim that fiscal deflation would be good for financial stability and growth. We think that deflationary policy tends to lower output and employment, but political aspects of deflationary policies are even more important. Deflationary policies sharpened a long-standing crisis of statehood and political legitimacy. Full employment policy may be desirable for the political stability and social cohesion. It is increasingly clear that many European countries (Croatia included) – and the EU as a whole – need to renegotiate their basic social contracts. But political elites are preoccupied with short-term fixes, they continue with deflationary policies, which have very strong negative redistributional consequences (rising inequality), and have not considered the long-term need for such revisions – to their own detriment and substantial loss of democratic legitimacy. Building the nationwide support for a new social contract – not just support by major parties and tehnocracy, but a grand coalition actually empowered by elections, i.e. constitutional arrangements with citizens-representatives that would monitor political elites to preclude corruption – will require an appeal to fairness. Fairness, not just fiscal rectitude – is essential

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