The notion of savings in economics has a variety of mutually incompatible meanings. This paper goes through various interpretations of the term and argues that, for the sake of clarity, it can and should be replaced with more precise terms. In order to show the significance of doing so, the...

In this paper the Keynes-Robertson controversy about the "revolving fund" of finance in 1937/38 is reviewed and the implications for the relationship between investment, finance and saving are drawn.

In New Keynesian as well as in Post Keynesian macroeconomic models, money supply is assumed to be endogenous. The reasons for the endogeneity and the role of the financial sector in the supply process, however, are seen very different. In this paper we explicitly derive the behaviour of the...

This paper addresses the perspective of Hayek's doctrine on monetary arrangements in the economy and his favorable argument for an international central bank over national central bank. I also discussed Hayek's view on free banking (i.e. for the free issue of bank notes) that would enable the...

This paper addresses the perspective of Hayek’s doctrine on monetary arrangements in the economy and his favorable argument for an international central bank over national central bank. I also discussed Hayek’s view on free banking (i.e. for the free issue of bank notes) that would enable...

In New Keynesian as well as in Post Keynesian macroeconomic models, money supply is assumed to be endogenous. The reasons for the endogeneity and the role of the financial sector in the supply process, however, are seen very different. In this paper we explicitly derive the behaviour of the...

Karl Brunner (1916-1989) was, with Milton Friedman and Allan Meltzer, the leader of the monetarist revolution of the Sixties and the Seventies. His work on asset markets placed the credit market, along with the money market, at center stage and focused on monetary policy as a primary source of...

This is a theoretical analysis of the role of money and other less liquid financial assets in the financing of the private sector of a market economy. It is concerned, basically, with the functional relations between households, firms, banks and other financial institutions, and with those...

A modern makroökonómia elméletében nagyon erősen tartja magát az a vélemény, mely szerint a finanszírozási szerkezet és a pénzügyi rendszer működése tulajdonképpen lényegtelen az üzleti ciklusok szempontjából, azok alapjában véve reál eredetűek. Ehhez kapcsolódóan...

What matters to economic decision-making is whether the economy has become more or less predictable. People and businesses use information around them to form judgements about what might happen in the future. The rise in uncertainty might be associated with increased concern about extreme...