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Financing for development and the post Keynesian case for a new global reserve currency

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    (Department of Political Science, School of Public Policy, University College London, London, UK)

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In the context of the current financial crisis the article returns to the Keynes's plan for an international clearing house. In exploring the intellectual basis for Keynes's economics-namely uncertainty and liquidity preference-the article identifies the anti-developmental characteristics of US dollar-based international monetary system: (1) financial volatility and recurrent crises, (2) costly excessive international reserves, (3) the fundamental asymmetry of a system in which developing countries finance the US. Collectively these result in global deflationary tendencies which are caused less by a lack of liquidity than systemic inefficiencies. Keynes's plan for international monetary reform offers a solution to all of these problems. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • David Hudson, 2010. "Financing for development and the post Keynesian case for a new global reserve currency," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 22(6), pages 772-787.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:22:y:2010:i:6:p:772-787
    DOI: 10.1002/jid.1724
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