Both monetary Keynesian theory and modern monetary theory (MMT) place money at the center of the analysis and highlight the important economic role of the state in a monetary market economy in which full employment is neither the norm nor the center of gravity. Whereas monetary Keynesian theory...

This paper asks whether the post-Keynesian or New Keynesian paradigm provides a more realistic description of the effects of fiscal policy on output and consumption. I establish some macro and microeconomic stylized facts on fiscal multipliers and marginal propensities to consume based on the...