The Post-Keynesian theory of endogenous money has given much attention to the role of the central bank in the money creation process. Circuit theory has neglected this role, in so far as it has focused on the relationship between banks and firms within a monetary production economy. The aim of...

It is often claimed by American Post Keynesians that the theories of endogenous money originated in the mid-1950s as a result of articles published by Nicholas Kaldor and Hyman Minsky. This paper offers another possibility. It argues that, in the mid-1950s, both Joan Robinson and Richard Kahn...

Joan Robinson's views on credit and money are discussed only rarely. Of late, however, some Post-Keynesians have sought to revive these views, claiming that Robinson was one of the original contributors to the theory of endogenous money, post Keynes. This paper has two objectives. First, it...

This paper outlines the fundamental arguments of the New Consensus, critiques it from a Post-Keynesian perspective, and offers a Post-Keynesian alternative to the Taylor Rule. While Post-Keynesian economics provides a theory of endogenous money with exogenous interest rates, it has no clear...

This paper attempts to reconcile Keynes's post-General Theory writings on the finance motive with the horizontalist approach, as advocated by Moore, Lavoie, Kaldor and many proponents of the Franco-Italian Circuit school. It is argued here that, as Keynes felt himself lsquo;gradually getting...

This paper examines the reasons for the difficulties Post Keynesian economics has had in supplanting mainstream neoclassical theory and for its resulting marginalization. Three explanations are given: intellectual, sociological and political, where the latter two are largely responsible for the...

We develop a circuit model in which firms finance part of their investment using bank credit issued and reimbursed over several periods. The model has three main properties: profits originate in the overlap of investments financed by bank credit that remain to be repaid; Say's Law is not...