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Inequality, Debt and Credit Stagnation

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What Larry Summers calls “secular stagnation”–which blames the limp economy on slower population growth and technical change–is actually “credit stagnation” due to too high a level of private debt. I explain the logic behind credit being an essential component of aggregate demand and income; the empirical consequences–including stagnation in the “Walking Dead of Debt” countries ...

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What Larry Summers calls “secular stagnation”–which blames the limp economy on slower population growth and technical change–is actually “credit stagnation” due to too high a level of private debt. I explain the logic behind credit being an essential component of aggregate demand and income; the empirical consequences–including stagnation in the “Walking Dead of Debt” countries and coming crises in the “Future Zombies” countries; and a complex systems approach to economic modeling which transcends “the Lucas Critique”.


Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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