While the literature on theoretical macroeconomic models adopting the stock-flow-consistent (SFC) approach is flourishing, few contributions cover the methodology for building a SFC empirical model for a whole country. Most contributions simply try to feed national accounting data into a theoretical model inspired by Wynne Godley and Marc Lavoie (2007), albeit with different degrees of complexity. In this paper we argue instead that the structure of an empirical SFC model should start from...
Read More »Steve Roth — Why Economists Don’t Know How to Think about Wealth (or Profits)
MMT, SFC, NIPA, FFA, etc. Must-read. Longish and detailed. Weekend reading.Angry BearWhy Economists Don’t Know How to Think about Wealth (or Profits) Steve Roth originally published at Evonomics 2016
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