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This paper provides remarks on modern monetary theory (MMT) from a Kaleckian perspective in response to a paper by …
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export-led mercantilist. For an economic policy alternative favouring a domestic demand-led regime, we turn towards Kalecki …
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) coming. Obviously, the answer is complex, but it must include reference to the evolution of macroeconomic theory over the … leave out the parallel developments in finance theory - with its efficient markets hypothesis - and in approaches to … 12 and 17 of the General Theory. It essentially reduced Keynes to sticky wages and prices, with nonneutral money only in …
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John Maynard Keynes's liquidity preference theory, Kregel argued that such rejection leaves the relation between money and … capital asset prices, and thus investment theory, hanging. This paper extends Kregel's analysis to an examination of the role … requires an extension of the circuit theory of money, along the lines of the credit and state money approaches of modern …
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Many empirical studies have found that interest rate have a positive effect on the price level. This paper pursues an obvious, but neglected explanation: interest payments are a cost of production that is at least in part passed on to costumers. A model shows that the cost-push effect of...
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Many empirical studies have found that interest rate increases have a positive effect on the price level. This paper pursues an obvious, but neglected explanation: interest payments are a cost of production that is at least in part passed on to customers. A model shows that the cost-push effect...
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of money via the use of money for public purpose, following the principles of Modern Money Theory (MMT). When used …
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In the present paper, we will construct three comparable 'toy models' to evaluate the alternative uses of functional finance from Lerner, MMT, and the Sraffians. First, we will argue that the general functional finance framework can be separated from the specific views of Lerner on how the...
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This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
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The contribution by the Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek to monetary theory stimulates a far-reaching debate on … money. Since the early 1930s Hayek had been concerned about the role of money in the theory of production (Hayek, 1931 …). Influenced by Eugene Bohm-Bawerk’s theory of capital, Hayek deeply examined the effects of monetary policy on the process of …
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