Mephistopheles and Inflation Karl Brunner died on May 9, 1989 in Rochester, New York. Prof. Michele Fratianni of Indiana University, while researching Brunner's academic life, found the unpublished paper "Mephistopheles and Inflation" which he submitted to Kredit und Kapital. The paper deals...

Probleme der nach-keynesianischen monetären Analyse: Ein Beitrag zu der von Professor Thomas Mayer eröffneten Diskussion Zu dem in dieser Zeitschrift erschienenen Übersichtsartikel vom Professor Mayer* zur monetären Analyse werden im vorliegenden Beitrag folgende korrigierende bzw....

Kreditmarkt, Zins und drei Typen der Inflation Der Aufsatz entwickelt ein analytisches Gerüst, das die gemeinsame Determinierung von Zinssätzen bei Geldanlagen, des Marktwerts von Realkapital (oder der realen Ertragsrate des Realkapivals), des Geldvermögens und des gesamten "Bankkredits"...

A Reformulation of the Quantity Theory of Money The point of departure is the incapacity of traditional price theory to explain the wıdespread nonutilization of agents of production as encountered in the mass unemployment of the thirties. Keynes attempted to overcome this difficulty with a...

Hat der Monetarismus versagt? Die makroökonomische Debatte ist durch die Erfahrungen der letzten vier Jahre erneut belebt worden. Sowohl die Medien als auch das akademische Establishment beteiligten sich an der Diskussion. Die zentrale Frage war dabei, ob der "Monetarismus versagt habe". Dieses...

The last twenty years offer remarkable evidence about the irrelevance of some political labels. The drift into permanent inflation, initiated by a "liberal" Administration under President Johnson, was continued under three "conservative" Administrations. The drift in our budget "policies" even...

The deficit of the Federal budget dominates the attention of the public arena. The process began with President Carter's ill-fated budget announcement in February 1980. The response of the bond market revealed at the time that an increasing segment of the public recognized the futility of...

The reflexes of politicians to problems, in particular those created by their past policies, are well conditioned. This pattern holds in particular for international financial problems. Major swings in the dollar in foreign exchange markets seem reliably associated with rising demands for...

The Shadow Open Market Committee was initiated in the summer of 1973. It was designed to offer an organized forum for a systematic appraisal of U.S. stabilization policies. A deep concern over policies pursued in the past ten years motivated the initiative. The financial policies dominantly...

The Shadow Open Market Committee warned in its first meeting in September 1973 against our drift into permanent inflation. The Committee's concern was motivated by the repeated failures of our policymaking in 1967,1970 and again in 1972. The monetary authorities abandoned in each case an...