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This paper explores the intellectual history of the state, or chartalist, approach to money, from the early developers (Georg Friedrich Knapp and A. Mitchell Innes) through Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, and Abba Lerner, and on to modern exponents Hyman Minsky, Charles Goodhart, and...
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This paper explores the rise of money and class society in ancient Greece, drawing historical and theoretical parallels to the case of ancient Egypt. In doing so, the paper examines the historical applicability of the chartalist and metallist theories of money. It will be shown that the origins...
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Paul A. Samuelson taught that every society has to choose between butter and guns. Individuals have to make the Gossen test of utility equivalence. The authors of the recent Mirrlees Review seem to believe that they can avoid this choice by considering taxation only. But how can one decide on...
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"A century of macroeconomic and monetary thought at the National Bank of Belgium" traces the history of economic research at the National Bank of Belgium, from the early decades of the 20th century to its present functioning in the Eurosystem. The study also goes into the major economic policy...
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L'articolo è rivolto a gettare un ponte fra la storia economica e la storia del pensiero economico nell'esperienza italiana dell'Ottocento e del Novecento. Vengono scelti e approfonditi episodi e fasi concernenti lo sviluppo, la stabilità, la distribuzione del reddito nell'economia italiana...
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Solow has repeatedly called for the development of models that combine equilibrium and out-of equilibrium outcomes or what he called a macro-economics of the medium-run. This paper recounts the history of Solow's different attempts to address this issue. It starts in early 1950s when Solow...
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The empirical work in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty First Century is simply breathtaking, but his use of the terms capital and marketable wealth interchangeably leads us to consider the implications of distinguishing between them, and calls our attention to important issues that deserve...
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This paper explores the intellectual history of the state, or chartalist, approach to money, from the early developers (Georg Friedrich Knapp and A. Mitchell Innes) through Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, and Abba Lerner, and on to modern exponents Hyman Minsky, Charles Goodhart, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057281
Solow has repeatedly called for the development of models that combine equilibrium and out-of equilibrium outcomes or what he called a macroeconomics of the medium-run. This paper recounts the history of Solow's different attempts to address this issue. It starts in early 1950s when Solow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011706942
In the last years, non-linear dynamics and complexity gained an important role in economics. Non-linear models are the analytical foundation of complex dynamic theory. This class of models is able to capture more conveniently and more naturally economic behaviors that are non-regular, such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139117