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This paper reflects on the history and enduring relevance of Keynes? economics. Keynes unleashed a devastating critique …
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Peter Howitt is best known for his contributions to growth theory, but his work in short- run economics, which began with his Ph.D thesis and still continues, is important and deserves attention. It lies firmly in the Keynesian macro-disequilibrium tradition of Clower and Leijonhufvud, and for a...
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Before becoming the hallmark of macroeconomics à la Wynne Godley, the 'stock-flow' analysis was already developed in microeconomics and general equilibrium theory. Basically, the goal was to study the formation of economic plans and the determination of market prices when individuals were...
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Keynes' General Theory was a massive step forward relative to classical economics, but it was also a step backward in … its denial of the conflictual nature of capitalism. There is need to understand Keynes' technical contributions regarding …. Keynes made a fundamental contribution elucidating the mechanism of effective demand, and he also has claim to be the …
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First, the concept of public expenditure multiplier is redefined to allow for import intensity of exports, and its value is estimated for Poland and the Czech Republic in 2008-2009. Next, on the basis of effective demand model of economic dynamics, there follows a comparative analysis of GDP...
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Feminist macroeconomics draws on the notion that the gender system is both cause and consequence of macroeconomic structures, outcomes, and policies. In contrast, mainstream and heterodox macroeconomics have done little to integrate gender as an analytical tool in macromodelling. This paper...
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The Financial Crisis of 2008, and the Great Recession in its wake, have shaken up macroeconomics. The paradigm of the "New" Neoclassical Synthesis, which seemed to provide a robust framework of analysis for short-run macro not long ago, fails to capture key elements of the recent crisis. This...
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Chapter 2 is one of the most important chapters in the General Theory. Not only does it set out Keynes' disagreements … key part in the way Keynes' theoretical model is developed here. This chapter introduces Keynes' concept of involuntary … consequent cyclicality of the real wage. Chapter 2 also includes Keynes' discussion of Say's Law …
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on Keynes's place in its history, suggesting that these stem from a particular and debatable understanding of how the … subdiscipline has evolved. It considers some implications for today's awkward economic facts of aspects of Keynes' General Theory … that the questions about co-ordination that Keynes addressed, not to mention some of his answers, are well worth revisiting. …
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