Starting from Schumpeter.s important distinction between .real analysis. and .monetary analysis., in this paper it is 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,...

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...

Starting from Schumpeter's important distinction between "real analysis" and "monetary analysis", in this paper it is 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,...

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...

In his August 30th, 1935 letter to Keynes, Harrod not once, but twice, conceded that Keynes had radically reconstituted the classical and neoclassical theory of the rate of interest by pointing out that the standard theory was one equation short. However, by adding the missing Liquidity...

Extreme mathematical illiteracy played a basic, fundamental role in the assessments made by Joan Robinson, Ralph Hawtrey and Dennis Robertson of Keynes's Theory of Liquidity Preference, which Harrod described in an August 30 1935, letter to Keynes as a major reconstruction of interest rate...

This paper examines the intellectual heritage of the debate between the Currency and Banking Schools of 19th-century England in regard to three Viennese economists: Rudolf Hilferding, Ludwig von Mises, and Joseph Schumpeter. I first provides a brief summary of the debate between the Currency and...

Joan Robinson created a large number of myths in her lifetime aimed at attacking Keynes, such as the claim about R. Kahn inventing and teaching Keynes about the Multiplier, her claim that Keynes’s ‘instantaneous ‘ multiplier is highly suspect, her claim that Keynes had a purely monetary...