Can the Bank of England do it?
(2019)
Preprint / Working Paper
All Outputs (7)
A Steindlian account of the distribution of corporate profits and leverage: A stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model with agent-based microfoundations
Preprint / Working Paper
Post Keynesian economics has largely forgotten Steindl's insight that monopolisation of the corporate sector redistributes profits to those firms least likely to invest them productively. Agent-based methods can be used to incorporate Steindl's insig... Read More about A Steindlian account of the distribution of corporate profits and leverage: A stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model with agent-based microfoundations.
Pseudo-Goodwin cycles in a Minsky model
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Goodwin cycles result from the dynamic interaction between a profit-led demand regime and a reserve army effect in income distribution. The paper proposes the concept of a pseudo-Goodwin cycle. We define this as a counter-clockwise movement in output... Read More about Pseudo-Goodwin cycles in a Minsky model.
Working paper no. 41: Factors generating and transmitting the crisis: Functional distribution of income
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The distribution of income between capital and labour has, until very recently, been ignored by the majority of the economics profession. At the same time, the rate of wage growth has systematically lagged the growth of productivity, leading to a fal... Read More about Working paper no. 41: Factors generating and transmitting the crisis: Functional distribution of income.
Working paper no.39: Finance and crisis: Marxian, institutionalist and circuitist approaches
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Most mainstream neoclassical economists completely failed to anticipate the crisis which broke in 2007 and 2008. There is however a long tradition of economic analysis which emphasises how growth in a capitalist economy leads to an accumulation of te... Read More about Working paper no.39: Finance and crisis: Marxian, institutionalist and circuitist approaches.
Do shadow banks create money? 'Financialisation' and the monetary circuit
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The rise of the shadow banking system is viewed throught the lens of Graziani's Monetary Theory of Production. Graziani's categories of 'initial finance' and 'final finance' are used to analyse the new forms of credit created in the shadow banking se... Read More about Do shadow banks create money? 'Financialisation' and the monetary circuit.
The dangerous fiction of the "fiscal black hole"
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Media reporting of the economy and choices facing the new Prime Minister and Chancellor has focused on a supposed ‘black hole’ in the public finances, typically given as being around £50bn in five years’ time. This has been presented as an urgent pri... Read More about The dangerous fiction of the "fiscal black hole".