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economic theory offers several reasons to believe that growing deficits might be associated with slower growth, and would … relation between deficits and growth could be positive. Modern Money Theory, adopting Godley's sectoral balance approach …, Lerner's functional finance approach, and Minsky's theory of financial instability takes a more nuanced approach. Historical …
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publication of A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory co-written with Frank Hahn. This narrative involves different … economists associated with various research traditions, going from the neo-classical synthesis in the 1960s, the New Classical …
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Knut Wicksell's concept of the natural (or neutral) rate of interest, introduced between the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, has played an important role in modern monetary macroeconomics, especially after the development of inflation targeting policy in the 1990s. More...
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This paper considers some methodological aspects of Joan Robinson's contribution to post-Keynesian growth theory. Joan …
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Evsey Domar put forward in a couple of articles in the 1940s a "guaranteed income growth proposal." For the first time in macroeconomics, economic policy was supposed to work merely through the impact of its announcement on expectations. He claimed that optimistic expectations of income growth...
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In mainstream economics, the word “inflation” refers to a general rise in prices measured against a standard level of purchasing power. Previously the term was used to refer to an increase in the money supply, which is now referred to as expansionary monetary policy or monetary inflation....
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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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theory appears not to be a cumulative science so far. When attempts are done to settle controversies by "nature" (testing the … or non-identified when testing them. Two examples are provided, one in growth theory and testing convergence, one in … business cycles theory and testing inflation persistence. …
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Key economic concepts of saving and investment are defined and discussed in this paper. It is shown that the equation “saving=investment” is a fundamental fallacy of macroeconomics due to a confusion between real and financial variables, and also between stock and flow variables. Economic...
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