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John Maynard Keynes's liquidity preference theory, Kregel argued that such rejection leaves the relation between money and … requires an extension of the circuit theory of money, along the lines of the credit and state money approaches of modern …. Kregel ; Chartalist ; Modern Money Theory ; State Money ; Credit Money ; Default …
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The development of the permanent income/life cycle consumption hypothesis was a key blow to Keynesian and Kaleckian economics, and, according to George Akerlof, it "set the agenda" for modern neoclassical macroeconomics. This paper focuses on the relationship of housing wealth to neoclassical...
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This paper argues that the usual framing of discussions of money, monetary policy, and fiscal policy plays into the … generally. To put it the way that economists usually do, money "lubricates" the market mechanism - a good thing, because the … chance. The paper advances an alternative framing for money and shows how it can be used to reshape discussion. The paper …
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Marx’s theory of money is critiqued relative to the advent of fiat and electronic currencies and the development of … financial markets. Specific topics of concern include (1) today’s identity of the money commodity, (2) possible heterogeneity of … the money commodity, (3) the categories of land and rent as they pertain to the financial economy, (4) valuation of …
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This paper discusses the role that finance plays in promoting the capital development of the economy, with particular emphasis on the current situation of the United States and the United Kingdom. We define both "finance" and "capital development" very broadly. We begin with the observation that...
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This paper presents a critique of Karl Marx's labor theory of value and his theory of falling profit rates from an … intersectional political economy perspective. Specifically, I rely on social reproduction theory to propose that Marx …
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Existing empirical schemas of class structure do not specify the capitalist class in an adequate manner. We propose a schema in which the specification of capitalist households is based on wealth thresholds. Individuals in noncapitalist households are assigned class locations based on their...
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We explore the relationships between aggregate profitability and women’s growing share of market work in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. Using decomposition analysis and counterfactuals, we investigate whether the contribution of the declining wage share to the upswing in...
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to put in place anti-inflationary measures, such as well-targeted taxes, wage and price controls, rationing, and … conclude that it is likely that the GND can be phased in without inflation, but if price pressures do appear, deferring a small …
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This paper presents a methodological discussion of two recent “endogeneity” critiques of the Kaleckian model and the concept of distribution-led growth. From a neo-Keynesian perspective, and following Kaldor (1955) and Robinson (1956), the model is criticized because it treats distribution...
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