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The role of financial policy

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  • Roger E.A. Farmer

    (University of Warwick, Coventry, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), London, UK and Emeritus Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

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I review the contribution and influence of Milton Friedman's 1968 presidential address to the American Economic Association. I argue that Friedman's influence on the practice of central banking was profound and that his arguments in favour of monetary rules were responsible for 30 years of low and stable inflation in the period from 1979 through 2009. I present a critique of Friedman's position that market economies are self-stabilizing and I describe an alternative reconciliation of Keynesian economics with Walrasian general equilibrium theory from that which is widely accepted today by most neoclassical economists. My interpretation implies that government should intervene actively in financial markets to stabilize economic activity.

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  • Roger E.A. Farmer, 2018. "The role of financial policy," Review of Keynesian Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, vol. 6(4), pages 446-460, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:rokejn:v:6:y:2018:i:4:p446-460
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    JEL classification:

    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
    • E4 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates

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