“The Yield from Money Held” Reconsidered
In holding money, its owner gains in the satisfaction of being able to meet instantly, as they unpredictably arise, the widest range of future contingencies.
In holding money, its owner gains in the satisfaction of being able to meet instantly, as they unpredictably arise, the widest range of future contingencies.
Doctrinally, "Keynesianism" would have to be regarded merely as a recent, one-way swing of the pendulum such as the world has often experienced before this time in the direction of distinct overvaluation of the possibilities and effects of monetary manipulations and alterations.
"The 'paradox of thrift' is actually an essential liquidation process that characterizes economic corrections."
"It is no coincidence that Mankiw's worldview leads him to literally propose destroying the currency in order to fix the economy."
If the current level of output and employment is made to depend on inflation, a slowing down in the pace of inflation will produce recessionary sym
John Maynard Keynes often employed flowery language like “animal spirits” and “liquidity trap” to describe things he did no
The German hyperinflation was the result of a policy that considered the financing of government debt by an accelerating increase in the money stoc
Since the heart of credit is real savings, it is obvious that no government schemes, such as cleansing banks' balance sheets, can increase fully backed credit.
Jeffrey Tucker interviews Michele Boldrin, co-author (with David K. Levine) of the book Against Intellectual Monopoly.
Paul Samuelson is the one who laid the theoretical foundation for this systemic anarchy. Milton Friedman then provided the emperor's new clothes, dressing it in the garb of neoliberalism. That is how these two leading figures in American economic thought were united in unleashing on the world community the system that has now collapsed.