A version of what Lawrence Summers and Anna Stansbury (2019) recently pointed to as “original” Keynesianism can be found in the work of Michał Kalecki and Hyman Minsky, Their work offers analysis of the determination of investment spending and effective demand which avoids the deficiencies found in the New Keynesian economics in which Summers and Stansbury find shortcomings. In the paragraphs below, I describe how their insights and those of other economists sharing their approach provide...
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Jason Smith comments on J. W. Mason and Arun Jayadev on MMT and conventional economics from the point of view of scientific modeling in macro.Information Transfer EconomicsWhat do equations mean?Jason Smith
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