Monthly Archives: August 2020

Protectionism and the rise of Donald Trump; Erin O‘Toole wins Tory leadership with the support of social conservatives, Quebec nationalists and Alberta energy sector

One of the books on my shelves of economics literature in my hallway is Protectionism by Jagdish Bhagwati who has taught at Colombia University for many years. It was published in 1989 by MIT press but most of it is … Continue reading

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The Demand for Money and the issue of liquidity preference

The demand for money and the issue of excessive liquidity preference. Keynes developed his notion of liquidity preference as outlined in the GT (1936) building on ideas he may have developed in part through his earlier supervision of Fredrick Lavington … Continue reading

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Keynes on Marx versus his own approach

Keynes wrote very little on Marx although at one point he dismisses the labour theory of value as ‘‘out of date controverialising‘‘ and at another refers to Marx as a lesser figure than Sylvio Gessell, the German revolutionary Minister of … Continue reading

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Keynes A monetary theory of production

One of the major mistakes of some Keynesian interpreters and followers has been to underestimate the extent to which Keynes believed that monetary policy along side fiscal policy was and remains important. It is a necessary but not sufficient mechanism … Continue reading

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Deficit hysteria continues at the Globe and Mail

I don‘t like to dwell on this topic since I would have thought that after the massive deficits. following the last financial crisis, the amount of quantitative easing which is what I called greater monetization of the debt by the … Continue reading

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