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Seven replies to the critiques of Modern Money Theory
Tymoigne, Éric - 2021
Modern Money Theory (MMT) has generated considerable scrutiny and discussions over the past decade. While it has gained some acceptance in the financial sector and among some politicians, it has come under strong criticisms from all sides of the academic spectrum and from conservative political...
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Is monetary financing inflationary? A case study of the Canadian economy, 1935 - 75
Ryan-Collins, Josh - 2015
to support the standard objection to such policies: that they will lead to uncontrollable inflation. Theoretical models … support for a relationship between monetary financing and inflation. The findings lend support to recent calls for explicit …
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A framework for understanding inflation - with or without money
Bengtsson, Ingemar - 2005
This paper presents a model that pictures how inflation is determined in a decentralized market process where prices … setters of sequential contracts. An important property of the model is that inflation thus can be explained without any … reference to the quantity of money.Following up the finding that inflation is determined in a coordination game, it is …
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Transaction Costs, Money and Units of Account
Bengtsson, Ingemar - 2005
In the paper, an analogy with length measurement is applied in order to explore the nature of the unit for value measurement, i.e. the unit of account. As the meter is defined as the length traveled by light in vacuum during 1/299 792 458 of a second, the unit of account krona is defined as the...
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Money in finance
Wray, L. Randall - 2011
This paper begins by defining, and distinguishing between, money and finance, and addresses alternative ways of financing spending. We next examine the role played by financial institutions (e.g., banks) in the provision of finance. The role of government as both regulator of private...
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Keynes after 75 years: Rethinking money as a public monopoly
Wray, L. Randall - 2011
In this paper I first provide an overview of alternative approaches to money, contrasting the orthodox approach, in which money is neutral, at least in the long run; and the Marx-Veblen-Keynes approach, or the monetary theory of production. I then focus in more detail on two main categories: the...
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The financial crisis viewed from the perspective of the "social costs" theory
Wray, L. Randall - 2011
This paper examines the causes and consequences of the current global financial crisis. It largely relies on the work of Hyman Minsky, although analyses by John Kenneth Galbraith and Thorstein Veblen of the causes of the 1930s collapse are used to show similarities between the two crises. K.W....
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Bad for Euroland, worse for Germany: the ECB's record
Bibow, Jörg - 2005
This paper assesses the contribution of the European Central Bank (ECB) to Germany's ongoing economic crisis, a vicious circle of decline in which the country has become stuck since the early 1990s. It is argued that the ECB continues the Bundesbank tradition of asymmetric policymaking: the bank...
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Has Japan been following Modern Money Theory without recognizing it? No! and yes
Wray, Larry Randall; Nersisyan, Yeva - 2021
and debt do not lead to insolvency, high interest rates, or inflation. MMT insists that governments that issue their own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610213
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Economic policy in India: For economic stimulus, or for austerity and volatility?
Sen, Sunanda; DasGupta, Zico - 2014
The implementation of economic reforms under new economic policies in India was associated with a paradigmatic shift in monetary and fiscal policy. While monetary policies were solely aimed at "price stability" in the neoliberal regime, fiscal policies were characterized by the objective of...
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