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Keynes had many plausible things to say about unemployment and its causes. His "mercurial mind", though, relied on intuition, which means that he could not strictly prove his hypotheses. This explains why Keynes's ideas immediately invited bastardizations. One of them, the Phillips curve...
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There is not much use to attack standard economics because deep in his heart the representative economist long knows that he is tied to a degenerating research program. The problem is, rather, that it seems to be exceedingly difficult to build up a convincing alternative. Keynes, for one, tried...
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The monetarist counterrevolution and the stagflation period of the 1970s were among the theoretical and practical developments that led to the rejection of fiscal policy as a useful tool for macroeconomic stabilization and full employment determination. Recent mainstream contributions, however,...
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It is now a few years since the introduction of the common currency, and Europe is still experiencing high unemployment. The conventional logic attributes this problem to strong trade unions and other flaws in the labour market. This article takes a different approach. Using a game theoretic...
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We propose a microeconomic foundation of the multiplier effect and that of the consumption function using a dynamic … demand through a multiplier-like process but that the implication is quite different. It works through not an increase in … consumption function ; multiplier effect ; Keynesian Cross ; persistent unemployment ; aggregate demand …
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recession. It is an application of the Keynesian multiplier theory, which was expounded in Keynes' 1936 economic treatise, The … General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Post-1936 economic history has given the multiplier theory mixed reviews … economist and journalist. He discussed the multiplier theory in the 1840s, more than a generation before John Maynard Keynes …
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aggregate demand deficiency. We show that an increase in government purchases boosts GDP through a multiplier process, but the …
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This note proposes a growth model that is derived from the standard Solow growth model by replacing the neoclassical production function with Kaldor's technical progress function while maintaining a marginalist theory of factor prices in the spirit suggested by von Weizsäcker (1966, 1966b). The...
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This note proposes a growth model that is derived from the standard Solow growth model by replacing the neoclassical production function with Kaldor's technical progress function while maintaining a marginalist theory of factor prices in the spirit suggested by von Weizsäcker (1966, 1966b). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464709
This note proposes a growth model that is derived from the standard Solow growth model by replacing the neoclassical production function with Kaldor's technical progress function while maintaining a marginalist theory of factor prices in the spirit suggested by vonWeizsäcker (1966, 1966b). The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464712