Credit, Money, and Production: An Alternative Post-Keynesian ApproachThis thought-provoking book clearly and systematically analyses the post-Keynesian approaches to endogenous money and, in doing so, provides an informed critique of the development of post-Keynesian economics. Using a horizontalist perspective the author offers an historical overview of the post-Keynesian and circuit approaches to endogenous money, starting with a comprehensive survey of the Franco-Italian circuit school. He argues that rather than emphasizing the early writings of Minsky, Kaldor and Tobin in the 1950s and of Davidson and Rousseas later, post-Keynesians ought to have followed the writings of Joan Robinson and Richard Kahn who offered far better theories of credit-money. The author then compares the current post-Keynesian structuralist theory with New Keynesian monetary thought. In conclusion, he develops an innovative theory of banking based on Keynesian uncertainty and consistent with the horizontalist tradition taking into account credit restraints, crunches and creditworthiness. This book will be illuminating to scholars of post-Keynesian economics, macroeconomics, and history of economic thought. |
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... monetary theory emanate from having followed Minsky and Davidson ' too closely ( and Keynes's General Theory ) , rather than Robinson and Kahn . Finally , the third objective is to develop a truly heterodox theory of credit and money ...
... Money and Production The objective of the present chapter is to develop a theory of endogenous money based on the circuit approach where bank credit takes center stage . Not only is money created ex nihilo , but endogenous money also ...
... theory essentially because it incorporates money . " 3 But this is not a satisfactory approach . A theory of a monetized economy must also include a theory of money - that is , a theory which explains how money is created , how it is ...
Contents
Credit Money and Production | 8 |
Figures | 41 |
Clarifications | 42 |
Copyright | |
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