Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy

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L. Randall Wray, Mathew Forstater
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2006 - Business & Economics - 288 pages
Money, Financial Instability and Stabilization Policy consists of original articles by leading Post Keynesians, Kaleckians and other heterodox economists from the developed and developing world. Post Keynesian literature has long been associated with the

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Contents

Introduction
1
1 Negative net resource transfers as a Minskyian hedge profile and the stability of the international financial system
11
2 Monetary and social relationships
22
3 System dynamics of interest rate effects on aggregate demand
37
4 Credibility versus confidence in monetary policy
58
towards a synthesis between Post Keynesian and Institutional Economics
85
6 Saving assetprice inflation and debtinduced deflation
104
a Post Keynesian interpretation
125
the Mexican case
141
9 The Washington Consensus and nondevelopment
171
10 Competition low profit margin low inflation and economic stagnation
192
11 Foundering after floating? Exchange rate management and the Mexican stock market 19952001
208
the development of the new member states of the European Union
231
Index
257
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