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Managing the Loss: How Pigou Arrived at the Pigou Effect
Takami, Norikazu - 2011
The Pigou effect was conceived to counter Keynes's argument that a competitive economy could remain in the state of high unemployment. Before he introduced this idea, Pigou had debated with Keynes the same question of whether an economy has the tendency to recover full employment. He lost in...
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Was Harrod Right?
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2012
Modern growth theory derives mostly from Robert Solow's "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth" (1956). Solow's own interpretation locates the origins of his "Contribution" in his view that the growth model of Roy Harrod implied a tendency toward progressive collapse of the economy. He...
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Solow's Harrod: Transforming Cyclical Dynamics into a Model of Long-run Growth
Halsmayer, Verena; Hoover, Kevin D. - 2013
Modern growth theory derives mostly from Robert Solow's "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth" (1956). Solow's own interpretation locates the origins of his "Contribution" in his view that the growth model of Roy Harrod implied a tendency toward progressive collapse of the economy. He...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592200
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James Tobin and Modern Monetary Theory
Dimand, Robert W. - 2014
This paper examines the relationship of the monetary economics of James Tobin to modern monetary theory, which has diverged in many ways from the directions taken by Tobin and his associates (for example, moving away from multi-asset models of financial market equilibrium and from monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592224
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A review of Alan Bollard's 'A Few Hares to Chase: The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips'
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2017
A.W.H. Phillips is little known to the economics profession today, except at the creator of the Phillips curve. Bollard's engaging biography tells the story of a provincial New Zealander and practical engineer, who emerges as a hero in World War II, and plots a spectacular rise from 3rd class...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613820
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The behavioral economics of John Maynard Keynes
Schettkat, Ronald - 2018
After the publication of Keynes' "General Theory," economics was frequently described as schizophrenia: (neo-) classical at the micro-level, but Keynesian at the macro-level. In actuality, Keynes' revolution was, to a substantial part, based on the behavioral micro-foundations of the world we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140491
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Animal spirits: Die verhaltensökonomischen Grundlagen der Keynesschen Theorie
Schettkat, Ronald - 2018
Keynes' General Theory (GT) ist in zweierlei Hinsicht umfassender als das (neo-) klassische Modell: (1) sie schließt das Vollbeschäftigungsgleichgewicht als Sonderfall ein und (2) sie basiert auf realistischem mikroökonomischem Verhalten, dessen sozial isolierter, den Eigennutz maximierender...
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Liquidity preference theory revisited: to ditch or to build on it?
Bibow, Jörg - 2005
This paper revisits Keynes's liquidity preference theory as it evolved from the Treatise on Money to The General Theory and after, with a view of assessing the theory's ongoing relevance and applicability to issues of both monetary theory and policy. Contrary to the neoclassical special case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266545
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Functional finance: A comparison of the evolution of the positions of Hyman Minsky and Abba Lerner
Wray, Larry Randall - 2018
This paper examines the views of Hyman Minsky and Abba Lerner on the functional finance approach to fiscal policy. It … compares and contrasts the evolution of the views of Minsky and Lerner over the postwar period, arguing that Lerner …. Minsky's views of functional finance became more nuanced, in line with his Institutionalist approach to the economy. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142947
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Two Harvard economists on monetary economics: Lauchlin Currie and Hyman Minsky on financial systems and crises
Velasquez, Iván D. - 2018
In November 1987, Hyman Minsky visited Bogotá, Colombia, after being invited by a group of professors who at that time … were interested in post-Keynesian economics. There, Minsky delivered some lectures, and Lauchlin Currie attended two of … those lectures at the National University of Colombia. Although Currie is not as well-known as Minsky in the American …
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