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Modern Money Theory (MMT) has generated considerable scrutiny and discussions over the past decade. While it has gained some acceptance in the financial sector and among some politicians, it has come under strong criticisms from all sides of the academic spectrum and from conservative political...
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"harmful inflation" regime for higher nominal GDP growth rates, these results have strong implications for guiding recent …
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If Piketty's main theoretical prediction (rg leads to rising wealth inequality) is taken to its radical conclusion, then a small elite will own all wealth if capitalism is left to its own devices. We formulate and calibrate a Post-Keynesian model with an endogenous distribution of wealth between...
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If the world’s countries seriously tackle the climate targets agreed upon in Paris, their citizens are likely to experience substantial changes in production, consumption, and employment. We present a long-run post-Keynesian model for studying the potential implications of a major transition...
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The concern that an economy could experience persistent stagnation, caused by a structural weakness of aggregate demand, goes back to Alvin Hansen's (1939) thesis of ‘secular stagnation'. Hansen's thesis has been revived in recent times, when it became clear that productivity and potential...
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inflation targeting. The growth performance of this regime is compared to the one resulting from real exchange rate targets …. Inflation targeting is shown to hurt growth and employment performance. Real exchange rate targeting, on the other hand, allows … placing the economy on a higher growth path, but the trilemma hurts inflation performance. This problem may be mitigated by …
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This paper analyzes Neoliberalism in the US economy with a view to identifying the effects of Neoliberalism on macroeconomic performance since 1990, underlying problems with the structure of the Neoliberal economy, and the effects of Neoliberalism on the economic consequences of the COVID-19...
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. Since inflation in our model is driven by distribution conflict, the "normal rate" of utilisation is associated with … consistent claims of firms and employees. Taking into account real debt effects of changes in inflation and distribution effects … Inflation in unserem Modell durch Verteilungskonflikte verursacht wird, ist der normale Auslastungsgrad durch miteinander …
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The article examines historical aspects, general economic logic, and theoretical discussions on the policy of stimulating the economy through increased government appropriations for defense items. It provides a brief overview of empirical studies on economic effects of defense spending in Russia...
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Although euro area-wide inflation was from 1999 to 2005 almost right, i.e., "close to balance, but below 2%," and … emerges at country level is more scattered. Inside a monetary union, inflation divergences could be destabilizing and an … excessive dispersion could be a problem, thus the scattered performance of the single members in terms of HICP inflation and …
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