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The potted histories of macroeconomics textbooks are typically Keynes-centric. Keynes is credited with founding … classical macroeconomics) to Keynes. The real story is more complicated and involves at least two distinct threads. Keynes was … central. Keynes's vision of macroeconomics is better described as "medical." It is based in human psychology and individual …
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The paper investigates Champernowne's 1936 attempt to sort out the debate between Pigou (1933) and Keynes (1936) about … employment determination. Champernowne agreed with Keynes that workers can only bargain for a money-wage, but argued that, to the …
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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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analysis. Keynes's economics, far from being an aberration in the otherwise orderly evolution of modern macroeconomics from … trading at "false" prices, a phenomenon ruled out by assumption in dynamic general equilibrium models. Not only Keynes …
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During the late-1940s and the early-1950s Milton Friedman favored a rule under which fiscal policy would be used to generate changes in the money supply with the aim of stabilizing output at full employment. He believed that the economy is inherently unstable because of endogenous movements in...
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This paper examines the relationship of the monetary economics of James Tobin to modern monetary theory, which has diverged in many ways from the directions taken by Tobin and his associates (for example, moving away from multi‐asset models of financial market equilibrium and from monetary...
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I examine John Maynard Keynes' struggle with the doctrine of the classical forced saving during the period 1924 … classical school. I primarily focus on the role of discussion and criticism in the development of Keynes' thought. I investigate … what led John Maynard Keynes to completely abolish ideas related to forced saving and place his emphasis on effective …
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The International Seminar on Macroeconomics (ISoM) is an annual conference, which was co-sponsored, during 15 years (1978-1993) by the French EHESS and the NBER. This article uncovers the scientific and institutional dynamics unrolling from this cooperation. The ISoM, we argue, constituted a...
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Samuelson kept optimization-based problems separated from macroeconomic dynamics in his Foundations, where dynamics were defined in terms of difference and differential equations. Despite some criticism of his "correspondence principle" of stability analysis by D.F. Gordon, D. Patinkin and...
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The paper investigates the role played by Friedman’s interpretation of the Brazilian inflation in his 1967 formulation of the natural rate hypothesis and in his 1976 discussion of indexation and other institutional arrangements in the face of chronic inflation. It is argued that, as an...
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