This paper discusses monetarist objections to the IS-LM model. We explore the views of two principal spokesmen for monetarism: Milton Friedman and the team of Karl Brunner and Allan Meltzer. Friedman did not explicitly state the reasons he generally chose not to use the IS-LM model in rejecting...

This paper critically evaluates two different approaches to teaching macroeconomics at the undergraduate level through the comparison of two popular, recent handbooks: Olivier Blanchard's Macroeconomics (2021) and William Mitchell, Randall Wray and Martin Watts's Macroeconomics (2019). These...

Das Konzept der Globalsteuerung basiert auf der Vorstellung, dass Arbeitslosig- keit und Inflation durch Geld- und Fiskalpolitik wirksam bekämpft werden können. Der Beitrag behandelt die theoretischen Grundlagen der antizyklischen Stabilisierungspolitik mit besonderem Fokus auf dem Einsatz der...

Das Konzept der Globalsteuerung basiert auf der Vorstellung, dass Arbeitslosig- keit und Inflation durch Geld- und Fiskalpolitik wirksam bekämpft werden können. Der Beitrag behandelt die theoretischen Grundlagen der antizyklischen Stabilisierungspolitik mit besonderem Fokus auf dem Einsatz der...

Changes in both the macroeconomy and in macroeconomics suggest that the IS-LM-AS model is no longer the best baseline model of short-run fluctuations for teaching and policy analysis. This paper presents an alternative model that replaces the assumption that the central bank targets the money...

One of the most significant changes in monetary economics in recent years has been the virtual disappearance of what was once a dominant focus on money, and in parallel the disappearance of the LM curve as part of the analytical framework that economists use to think about issues of monetary...

Dynamic optimizing models with an IS-LM-type structure and slow price adjustments have been used for much recent monetary policy analysis, but usually with capital and investment treated as exogenous a significant restriction. This paper demonstrates that investment decisions can be endogenized...

This paper asks whether relations of the IS-LM type can sensibly be used for the aggregate demand portion of a dynamic optimizing general equilibrium model intended for analysis of issues regarding monetary policy and cyclical fluctuations. The main result is that only one change -- the addition...

Keynes’s IS-LM model in the General Theory, defined in (r,Y) space and contained in chapter 21 in Part IV on pp. 298-299 of the General Theory, was derived from the underlying D-Z model of Chapter 20 that incorporated expectations and uncertainty into the P(expected economic profits-Z) and...

There is already a small literature emphasising the empirical failure of the New Keynesian IS curve, but it is not yet known if this failure reflects empirical problems associated with small samples or is rather a structural weakness of the underlying model. To address this question, in this...

Narrow and broad money measures (including Divisia aggregates) have been found to have explanatory power for UK output in backward-looking specifications of the IS curve. In this paper, we explore whether or not real balances enter into a forward-looking IS curve for the UK, building on the...

This paper considers the implications of the permanent/transitory decomposition of shocks for identification of structural models in the general case where the model might contain more than one permanent structural shock. It provides a simple and intuitive generalization of the influential work...

Emerging markets (sometimes endowed with fertile pampas) have limited access to world capital markets and suffer from original sin: they cannot borrow in their own currency. Does this mean that monetary and exchange rate policy has non-standard effects in such countries? We develop a simple...

P. Samuelson showed clearly in 1952 that a mathematical economics analysis using abstract symbols can be written out in clear English(or any other language) as well.Samuelson’s assessment of the interchangeability of a correctly translated mathematical analysis into English was clearly...

Nevile writes that : “Thus, it is of considerable interest to speculate on what Keynes would have thought about the way ISLM became identified as "Keynesian" economics for most of the economics profession. We know, of course, what his first reaction to ISLM was in...

Keynes spent a tremendous amount of time and energy attempting to tutor Harrod on the mechanics of his IS-LM model between July to September, 1935. Keynes's painstaking slow attempts finally led Keynes in desperation to write a three point postscript to his letter of August, 1935, that is...

This study argues three policies for economies. The aim of those policies is to increase total demand by money supply. Global economy currently faces lack of money in markets and recession effect. First, neo-merchantalism is to use national currency in bilateral trade. Second, limited money...

Introduction, Keynes’s Own IS-LM Approach -- Prologue to Keynes’s IS-LM, 1930 to 1932 -- The Advent of Keynes’s IS-LM, 1933 -- “The Missing Link”: Keynes’s Own Lecture Notes, December 4, 1933, Impact and Implications -- Reconstructing Keynes’s IS-LM Approach, 1931 to 1937 --...

All of J .M .Keynes's earlier 1933-1935 versions of his IS-LM(LP) model contained a serious inconsistency. These earlier models all incorporated both actual and expected outcomes in the same model. The units did not match up. Keynes solved this problem by himself by splitting off the D-Z model...

Keynes provided two versions of his IS-LM(LP) model in the General Theory. The first version was the verbal, English, literary, prose version contained in chapter 18 of the General Theory. This version was targeted for economists, such as Joan Robinson and Dennis Robertson, who could not grasp a...

Keynes's original IS-LM (LP) model of 1933, although a major conceptual breakthrough, was technically and mathematically flawed because Keynes incorporated realized and expected variables in the same set of equations.Keynes had solved this problem by early 1936 by formulating a completely new...

We show an example of a small open economy - the Czech Republic - where the fiscal restriction was put in place between 2010 and 2013 in a negative output gap and zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. According to our results, such fiscal policy seems to have been mistaken, as the...

A.Hansen essentially went wrong in his evaluation of Keynes's work in the General Theory (GT;1936) that dealt with the Liquidity Preference function in chapters 13,14,15,and 21.His basic error occurs when he evaluates Keynes's chapter 14 analysis on pp.179-183 that dealt with the fact that the...

The myth or story regarding the creation of the IS-LM model in the economics profession goes something like this. Keynes correctly showed in the General Theory that you could not specify the rate of interest just from the supply of savings and demand for investment schedules alone because this...

J. M. Keynes versus D. Robertson in 1936-37 pits two opponents, one, J. M. Keynes, a highly skilled, sophisticated, mathematically advanced thinker against another, D. Robertson, who doesn't have even an elementary background in mathematics at the grammar school level. Basically, the...

Keynes told Hicks very clearly on March 31st, 1937 that Keynes had already done what Hicks had done on page 156 of his 1937 Econometrica paper, which was to add Aggregate Actual Income I (Keynes's Y) into the three equation set comprising Hicks's later version of Keynes's IS-LM model. However,...

Keynes brought all three of the universally recognized elements that are needed to comprise the IS-LM model, the liquidity preference function, the investment function, and investment multiplier, together in Section Four of Chapter 21 of the General Theory. However, this took place only after...

There is no IS-LM (LP) model of Keynes's theory of the rate of interest and liquidity preference in chapter 18 of the General Theory. Keynes made it very clear in Section IV of chapter 15 that he was going to give a brief summary of his theory and application of the model there while he would...

There is no IS-LM (LP) model of Keynes's theory of the rate of interest and liquidity preference in chapter 18 of the General Theory. Keynes made it very clear in Section IV of chapter 15 that he was going to give a brief summary of his theory and application of the model there while he would...

F. Modigliani presented a special case of Keynes's General Theory result in 1944 in his “Liquidity Preference and the Theory of Interest and Money”. Modigliani sought to provide the IS-LM model of Hicks's 1937 Econometrica interpretation of Keynes's chapter 15 IS-LM model with microeconomic...

Patinkin came very, very close in 1987 to discovering for himself that Keynes,not Hicks, was the creator and developer of IS-LM. Unfortunately, he stopped his analysis right at the point where he could have established Keynes's priority over Hicks.On pp.180-181 in chapter 14 of the GT,Keynes...

Applying IS-MP-IA model and the Taylor rule, this study finds that for selected CESEE economies (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Serbia), lower expected inflation rate, real exchange rate appreciation, a lower world interest rate which is calculated like a federal funds rate minus...

J M Keynes engaged in correspondence over the IS-LM model contained in chapter 15 of the General Theory with R. Harrod and J Hicks in 1937. Keynes had no major objections. How could he? How could Keynes object to interpretations concerning his own model of IS LM in the General Theory, as laid...

This paper provides a somewhat intertemporal microfoundation for IS-LM in an economy where there is a monopoly issuer of medium of exchange, money. The core microfoundation in this model comes from the Arrow-Debreu general equilibrium result that riskless interest rate may not be uniform across...