We decompose the representative agent into her manager, worker and rentier selves. The criterion is the information set of each of the 'incarnations' at every stage of a repeated game. The rentier's information set includes anticipating information while the information set of the other agents...

The institutional combination of illiquid assets and demand deposit banking is regarded as vulnerable to collapse because of the impatience of depositors. We suggest that the mechanism of fully backed central bank money is a means of redress.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to appraise the transition from bank-based systems to universal banking. Design/methodology/approach – The Wynne Godley and Francis Cripps macroeconomic framework is used to structure the argument. Findings – It is shown that the activity of...

The case for financial liberalisation is founded on the neoclassical proposition that savings causes investment and that the interest rate tends to move to equate the two. We find little support for this thesis from the experience of India. Alternatively, we suggest that the Post Keynesian...

Low-denomination coins are ceasing to be accepted as a medium of exchange in India, according to Romar Correa.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to make a case for an international clearing house. Design/methodology/approach – The systems postulate is used: the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Specifically, the 2007 Godley-Lavoie model is exploited. Findings – Domestic banking...

We model the interaction between capitalists and entrepreneurs as a dynamic game. The open-loop Nash equilibrium and the closed-loop Nash equilibrium are distinguished. The purpose is to answer some questions that have arisen in the development of profit-led versus wage-led growth models. We...

Exegetical study of the economics of Hayek and Keynes are active research industries in the form of the neo-Austrian and Post-Keynesian research programmes respectively. Often it would appear that these efforts would benefit from an underlying methodological orientation. It is our argument that...

The relationship between organizations and environment is examined within the context of General Systems Theory. It is argued that the policy problem confronting the modern organization is to cope with environmental turbulence. Three modes of coping with fundamental uncertainty are identified....