"This paper presents a theory of the monetary transmission mechanism in an old-Keynesian model with multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model; the optimizing IS curve and the policy rule. It differs from the new-Keynesian model by...

This paper presents a theory of the monetary transmission mechanism in an old-Keynesian model with multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model; the optimizing IS curve and the policy rule. It differs from the new-Keynesian model by...

Introduction, Keynes’s Own IS-LM Approach -- Prologue to Keynes’s IS-LM, 1930 to 1932 -- The Advent of Keynes’s IS-LM, 1933 -- “The Missing Link”: Keynes’s Own Lecture Notes, December 4, 1933, Impact and Implications -- Reconstructing Keynes’s IS-LM Approach, 1931 to 1937 --...

This monograph is devoted to the analysis of the dynamics of business cycles and stabilization policies. The analysis is conducted in models of the AS-AD type, focusing on involuntary unemployment and capital accumulation. Major conclusions are the following. (1) Sectoral imbalances, once...