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Limitless Deficit Financing for Economic Prosperity: Where They Got Keynes’s Deficit Spending Wrong? تمويل العجز بلا حدود من أجل الرخاء الاقتصادي: كيف أخطأوا فهم فكرة تمويل العجز لكينز؟

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  • Sajid Amin Javed

    (Research Fellow, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Islamabad, Pakistan)

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The recent wave of recommendations of unlimited credit creation to finance government expenditures to achieve economic growth and prosperity seems to be grounded in misunderstanding Keynes’s countercyclical fiscal policy. Keynes’s deficit spending denotes the stimulus geared towards increasing private investment as opposed to big government spending boosting consumption. Taking Japan as a case study, I showcase that deficit financing meeting Keynesian preconditions, including a sound monetary system, well-developed financial markets, and lower/zero interest rate, may not lead to raising growth and lowering public debts as the proponents predict. I maintain that unlimited credit expansion to the public sector in consumption-based economies, which is the general case for developing countries, is most likely to generate inflation while leaving the economy’s productivity unchanged. إن التيار الأخير من التوصيات بشأن إنشاء ائتمانات غير محدودة لتمويل النفقات الحكومية لتحقيق النمو الاقتصادي والرخاء ترتكز على سوء الفهم لسياسة كينز المالية المضادة للدورة الاقتصادية. تهدف سياسة كينز في الإنفاق في العجز إلى التحفيز الموجه نحو زيادة الاستثمارات الخاصة في مقابل الإنفاق الحكومي الكبير. مستخدما اليابان كدراسة حالة، فإنني أثبت أن التمويل بالعجز الذي يستوفي الشروط الأساسية الكينزية، بما في ذلك النظام النقدي السليم، والأسواق المالية المتطورة، ومعدل سعر الفائدة المنخفض/الصفري، قد لا يؤدي إلى زيادة النمو وانخفاض الديون الحكومية كما يتنبأه المؤيدون. وأؤكد على أن التوسع الائتماني غير المحدود للقطاع العام في الاقتصادات القائمة على الاستهلاك، وهي الحالة للبلدان النامية عموما، من المرجح أن يولد التضخم مع ترك إنتاجية الاقتصاد دون تغيير.

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  • Sajid Amin Javed, 2019. "Limitless Deficit Financing for Economic Prosperity: Where They Got Keynes’s Deficit Spending Wrong? تمويل العجز بلا حدود من أجل الرخاء الاقتصادي: كيف أخطأوا فهم فكرة تمويل العجز لكينز؟," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 32(1), pages 97-109, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:32:y:2019:i:1:no:7:p:97-109
    DOI: 10.4197/Islec.32-1.7
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    Keywords

    Keynes; Keynesian Policy; Deficit Spending; Credit Creation; Interest rate; Fiscal Policy. كينز - سياسيات كينز - الإنفاق في العجز - خلق الإئتمان - سعر الفائدة - السياسة المالية.;
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    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • H63 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt
    • H81 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Governmental Loans; Loan Guarantees; Credits; Grants; Bailouts

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