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generalize the original Keynesian intuition. It shows in fact that unemployment emerges as the result of a lack of co-ordination … equilibrium when subject to a (negative) demand shock. He maintains that money wages cuts may not help reabsorb unemployment, as … cumulative process propels the economy far away the full employment equilibrium. The consideration of co-ordination failures in …
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market regularities and (ii) macroeconomic dynamics (long-term rates of growth, GDP uctuations, unemployment rates … relations are conducive to coordination successes with higher and smoother growth. …
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Using a dynamic efficiency wage model, where a Phillips curve appears because worker morale depends on the unemployment … on unemployment in two steady states. In one steady state, only structural unemployment occurs. In the other, not only … structural unemployment but also Keynesian unemployment arises. We find that the effects obtained in the former steady state …
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coordination hurdles. In his analysis Joe is in many respects a "closet evolutionist" who in fact highlighted and explored many … properties e.g. coordination failures and the possibility of path-dependent multiplicity of growth trajectories which are far and … major themes, namely, the consequences of learning and dynamic increasing returns, and "Keynesian" coordination failures …
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In this paper I will follow Hyman Minsky in arguing that the postwar period has seen a slow transformation of the economy from a structure that could be characterized as "robust" to one that is "fragile". While many economists and policymakers have argued that "no one saw it coming", Minsky and...
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Since the beginning of the fall of monetarism in the mid-1980s, mainstream macroeconomics has incorporated many of the principles of post-Keynesian endogenous money theory. This paper argues that the most important critical component of post-Keynesian monetary theory today is its rejection of...
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In this paper I will follow Hyman Minsky in arguing that the postwar period has seen a slow transformation of the economy from a structure that could be characterized as "robust" to one that is "fragile." While many economists and policymakers have argued that "no one saw it coming," Minsky and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128523
We should learn from Keynes to focus on the macroproblems of our day. Today's problem is the financial crisis and the resulting great recession. Neither the standard Keynesian policies of decades past nor the monetary policy doctrine of recent years provides useful solutions. Dynamic stochastic...
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Since the beginning of the fall of monetarism in the mid-1980s, mainstream macroeconomics has incorporated many of the principles of post-Keynesian endogenous money theory. This paper argues that the most important critical component of post-Keynesian monetary theory today is its rejection of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045724
This paper traces the evolution of John Maynard Keynes’s theory of the business cycle from his early writings in 1913 to his policy prescriptions for the control of fluctuations in the early 1940s. The paper identifies six different “theories” of business fluctuations. With different...
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