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Aggregate demand, endogenous money, and debt: a Keynesian critique of Keen and an alternative theoretical framework

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  • Thomas I. Palley

    (Independent Analyst, Washington, DC, USA)

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This paper presents a Keynesian critique of Steve Keen's treatment of the aggregate demand–credit–endogenous money nexus. It argues his analytic intuition is correct but is developed in the wrong direction. Keen's fundamental relation describing determination of AD in an endogenous credit money economy suffers from two flaws. First, it neglects the core Keynesian problematic of leakages from and injections into the circular flow of income. Second, it falls into the theoretical morass regarding the black box of velocity of money via its adoption of a form of Fisher equation to determine AD. The paper contrasts Keen's treatment with a Keynesian structural framework.

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  • Thomas I. Palley, 2014. "Aggregate demand, endogenous money, and debt: a Keynesian critique of Keen and an alternative theoretical framework," Review of Keynesian Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, vol. 2(3), pages 312-320, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:rokejn:v:2:y:2014:i:3:p312-320
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    Cited by:

    1. Antonin Pottier & Adrien Nguyen-Huu, 2017. "Debt and investment in the Keen model: a reappraisal of modelling Minsky," Review of Keynesian Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, vol. 5(4), pages 631–647-6, October.
    2. Jacob Assa, 2017. "Leveraged Growth: Endogenous Money and Speculative Credit in a Stock-flow Consistent Measure of Output," Working Papers 1727, New School for Social Research, Department of Economics.

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    Keywords

    endogenous money; credit; aggregate money; velocity of money;
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    JEL classification:

    • E00 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - General
    • E10 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - General
    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E20 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • E40 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - General

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