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The interaction between income distribution, accumulation, employment, and the utilization of capital is central to macroeconomic models in the "heterodox" tradition. This article examines the stylized pattern of these variables using U.S. data for the period after 1948. We look at the trends...
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aim of this paper is to lay down a growth model, grounded in the Post Keynesian stock-flow-consistent approach of Godley … steady growth path. …
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This paper uses a detailed macroeconomic model characterized by demand-led growth, Sraffian pricing, and the Kaldor … monetary policy. Focus is placed on the development of interest rate rules that ensure balanced long-run growth with either …
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This paper uses a set of simple Post Keynesian models of growth and distribution to provide a systematic analysis of … how growth affects income distribution through a number of alternative channels, thereby making possible a more complete … analysis of the interaction between growth and distribution than is possible in simpler models that concentrate on the effect …
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The role of monetary policy in the cyclical behavior of the labor share and capacity utilization in the U.S. economy is studied empirically. Previous estimation results remain robust; the inclusion of the rate of interest does not alter the underlying specification of the distributive demand...
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Many argue that the current recession is the product of a temporary stock market wobble. This paper argues that the U.S. economy confronts deeper-seated problems concerning the aggregate demand generation process. For two decades, these problems have been obscured by a range of demand...
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Since the adoption of inflation targeting in New Zealand in 1990, a number of developed as well as developing and emerging market economies have followed suit. Often the sole goal of central bank policies, the strategy of inflation targeting is to reduce the inflation rate and, in some cases,...
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The term "Washington Consensus" was originally used to describe a list of ten reforms that I argued were practically universally agreed in Washington to be desirable in most Latin American countries as of 1989. It acquired alternative meanings over the years, one of which was a summary of the...
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, unemployment, and low growth rates of gross domestic product. The econometric analysis that appears in this paper uses panel data … demand growth and the unemployment rate. …
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The ideas of Keynes have been appropriated by the political left in recent years. The condemnation of Keynes that was characteristic of critics speaking for the extreme right has become mainstream with the takeover of macroeconomic theory by schools such as new classical economics. But how...
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