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Kingston Becoming an Economist L10: Why the money multiplier model is false 1/2

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The actual focus of this lecture was monetary policy after the crisis, and in particular unconventional monetary policy or QE. But to explain why it has given far less bang for the buck than economic theory expected, I had to explain why the money multiplier model of money creation is nonsense.

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The actual focus of this lecture was monetary policy after the crisis, and in particular unconventional monetary policy or QE. But to explain why it has given far less bang for the buck than economic theory expected, I had to explain why the money multiplier model of money creation is nonsense.


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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