The present discussions about the future of bank regulation, coming after a long period of bank deregulation, have a natural tendency to exaggerate the effectiveness of regulation. But those discussions are poorly rooted in the macroeconomic foundations of bank intermediation, including its...

Kalecki explained debt resolution by means of a fable about monetary circulation between mutually indebted individuals. This chapter generalizes the processes of debt payment in that fable to show how interest and debt payments depend on the financial circulation of money, rather than profits or...