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It has been argued that aggregate-supply/aggregate-demand (AS/AD) models suffer from an inconsistency because they assume that firms set price and adjust quantity for the AD curve and are profit-maximizing price takers for the AS curve. It is shown that this inconsistency is rife in intermediate...
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This paper develops a general framework in the form of an underdetermined model in which alternative models of North-South trade and development can be looked upon as providing alternative "closures." Several such models, drawing on neoclassical, neo-Marxian, neo-Keynesian, neo-Kaleckian, and...
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This note examine's Clower's recent criticisms of Keynes' theory of effective demand and argues that Keynes added much to Marshallian theory when he extended to the aggregate level, that his theory does have implications for unemployment without requiring wage rigidity, that his theory does not...
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This paper defends the Aggregate-Supply/Aggregate-Demand framework against recent criticisms by Barro and others. Using four models - a neoclassical-synthesis Keynesian, a monetarists mark 1, a rational expectation/new classical, and a Kaleckian/post-Keynesian - based on this framework, it is...
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