This paper aims at empirically assessing the demand effects of changes in functional income distribution for the Netherlands. Based on a Neo-Kaleckian theoretical macroeconomic model, equations for the main demand aggregates (consumption, investment, exports and imports) are estimated. The...

John King, in his A History of Post Keynesian Economics Since 1936, raises the question of whether there exists a body of work which can be called, collectively, post Keynesian. This paper presents some criteria for addressing this question, beginning with the vision and the origins of some of...

Introduction, Keynes’s Own IS-LM Approach -- Prologue to Keynes’s IS-LM, 1930 to 1932 -- The Advent of Keynes’s IS-LM, 1933 -- “The Missing Link”: Keynes’s Own Lecture Notes, December 4, 1933, Impact and Implications -- Reconstructing Keynes’s IS-LM Approach, 1931 to 1937 --...

Modern Money Theory (MMT) has generated considerable scrutiny and discussions over the past decade. While it has gained some acceptance in the financial sector and among some politicians, it has come under strong criticisms from all sides of the academic spectrum and from conservative political...

This paper provides an introduction to Keynesian macroeconomic theory as Keynes explained it in The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Keynes emphasized the principle of effective demand, and argued that the gap between demand for consumption and aggregate supply would increase...

This paper tries to clarify some important aspects around the zero-growth discussion. Starting from an accounting perspective, we analyse the implications of zero growth and clarify the stability conditions of such an economy. This is complemented with a monetary circuit approach - which, like...

This volume represents the extension of Keynes' General Theory by a group of eminent economists. Each essay takes Keynes' work as a frame of reference for criticism, explorations and insights, whilst adding to the superstructure on the foundation of the General Theory. The essays also provide...