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Whether a theoretical system is realistic or not has been a concern in economics, particularly in monetary theory, over … the past century. Following John R. Hicks' proposal that a realistic monetary theory could be constructed along an … basic theories of monetary analysis. Concentrating primarily on certain fundamental building blocks it covers: the theory …
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In monetary models in which agents are subject to trading shocks there is typically an ex-post inefficiency in that some agents are holding idle balances while others are cash constrained. This inefficiency creates a role for financial intermediaries, such as banks, who accept nominal deposits...
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In this paper I show that a lax anti-counterfeiting policy is inconsistent with price stability. I use a deterministic matching model with no commitment and no enforcement. An intrinsically worthless but perfectly durable object called a ‘note’ can be produced by banks at a given cost, but...
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In the canonical monetary policy model, money is endogenous to the optimal path for interest rates and output. But when … liquidity provision by banks dominates the demand for transactions money from the real economy, money is likely to contain … information for future output and inflation because of its impact on financial spreads. And so we decompose broad money into …
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shown that major elements of Marx.s economic theory fall in the camp of monetary analysis and the implications for Marx ….s theory of capital accumulation are derived. First, Marx.s theory of labour value has to be considered a .monetary theory of …. Money as a social representative of value, therefore, is introduced at the very beginning of Marx.s microeconomics. Marx …
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possible. These three propositions are used to build a theory of money that is linked to common themes in the heterodox …This paper advances three fundamental propositions regarding money: (1) As R. W. Clower (1965) famously put it, money … buys goods and goods buy money, but goods do not buy goods. (2) Money is always debt; it cannot be a commodity from the …
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In this paper the view of humankind and nature upon which the thinking of Malthus is founded will be reflected on and contrasted with the opposed understanding of his contemporary Wordsworth. We show that the economic considerations of both are based decidedly on the premise of these views, and...
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As the recent financial crisis has revealed, the state is central to the stability of the money system, while the … chaotic privately-owned banks reap the benefits without shouldering the risks. This book argues that money is a public … resource that has been hijacked by capitalism. Mary Mellor explores the history of money and modern banking, showing how …
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money, because Triffin and successors assume a commodity theory of money, a loanable funds model for credit creation, and … - chartalist money, endogenous credit creation, and interlocked global balance sheets - enables us to see four factors behind the …, and the dollar's status as global quasi-state money. …
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