The paper employs a post-Kaleckian model to address the question of how currency devaluations affect aggregate demand, capital accumulation, and debt in an economy with foreign currency liabilities. In benchmark post-Kaleckian open economy models currency devaluations have two key effects....

This article shows that the United States Dollar has been unconstitutional since at least the Civil War. Congresses and central bankers often weaken its value. In a previous article, I demonstrated that the largely valueless Dollar causes human poverty and environmental damage. If Congress...

We study the aggregate and re-distributive effects of currency devaluations in a small open economy heterogeneous households model with leverage-constrained banks. Our framework captures three stylized facts about liability dollarization in emerging economies: i) banks and firms borrow in...