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Debt, Aggregate Demand, and the Business Cycle

In: Post Keynesian Economics

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  • Thomas I. Palley

    (New School for Social Research)

Abstract

The importance of debt and credit have been evident throughout much of this book. Chapter 4 showed how the presence of inside debt potentially undermined the ability of price level reductions to increase aggregate demand. The importance of credit was also evident in the discussion of the money supply in Chapter 7, and it reappeared as an important element in the theory of endogenous finance that was developed in Chapter 8. Thus far, the treatment of credit has been restricted to a static context, and this has meant that the aggregate demand effects of debt have been restricted to its deflationary “stock” effects. However, issuance of new debt can have expansionary “flow” effects on aggregate demand. This chapter combines these stock-flow aggregate demand effects of debt within the context of a model of the business cycle.

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  • Thomas I. Palley, 1996. "Debt, Aggregate Demand, and the Business Cycle," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Post Keynesian Economics, chapter 12, pages 201-215, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37412-6_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230374126_12
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    1. Francesco Ruggeri, 2021. "Household debt, aggregate demand, and instability in a Stock-Flow model," Working Papers 4/21, Sapienza University of Rome, DISS.

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