Lectures on “The Monetary Theory of Production” and “The General Theory of Employment”

Author(s):  
Robert W. Dimand
2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 1397-1415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teodoro Dario Togati

AbstractIn this paper, I tackle the key issue raised by Pasinetti, namely why Keynes failed to accomplish his revolution and build a unifying ‘monetary theory of production’ framework. I argue that this occurred because, following his Marshallian background, he adopted an oversimplified view of the structure of theories, a problem which, following Leontief, might be labelled as ‘implicit theorising’ (IT). By making a comparison between the General Theory and standard macroeconomics based on Lakatos’s ‘research programme’ notion, this paper explores IT in a systematic fashion and stresses two key points. First, Keynes did not attack the ‘true’ orthodox postulates but only the conclusions deriving from them. Secondly, he failed to articulate his own research programme effectively. Based on these points, the paper concludes that filling such gaps in Keynes’s theory is the precondition for restoring his generality claim.


1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas K. Rymes

In The General Theory, John Maynard Keynes broke with the quantity theory of money, not just in working out a monetary theory of production but, as he says, in arguing the case for a monetary theory of value. Keynes writes (CW, 7, pp. xxii-xxiii):A monetary economy, we shall find, is essentially one in which changing views about the future are capable of influencing the quantity of employment and not merely its direction. But our method of analyzing the economic behaviour of the present under the influence of changing ideas about the future is one which depends on the interaction of supply and demand, and is in this way linked up with our fundamental theory of value. We are thus led to a more general theory, which includes the classical theory with which we are familiar, as a special case.


2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Fontana ◽  
Riccardo Realfonzo

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nadia Oliva ◽  
Andrea Pacella

<p>The paper aims to introduce ethical remarks into the monetary circuit (or monetary theory of production)<br />approach in order to study the mechanism of money creation when banks discriminate production on an ethical<br />plane. By the micro-foundation of the banks’ and firms’ behaviour, it will be shown that the ethical<br />discrimination of firms by banks is implemented by the differentiation of the mark-ups on the loan rate and how<br />this discrimination leads the system to create different credit markets according to the capacity (or willingness)<br />of firms to satisfy (or not) the ethical claims of the banks.</p>


2003 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Wagner Da Fonseca ◽  
Marcos Roberto Vasconcelos

Este trabalho busca apresentar uma visão geral sobre os mecanismos de transmissão da política monetária. O início da discussão obrigatoriamente passa pela controvérsia dentro da teoria monetária sobre o papel da moeda na economia e sua capacidade em afetar as variáveis reais. Sintetiza-se o debate ocorrido entre as correntes da economia monetária no período pós-guerra, entre os keynesianos da síntese neoclássica e os monetaristas. A evolução das idéias fez surgir outras correntes de pensamento, como os novos-clássicos, os novoskeynesianos e os pós-keynesianos, mas o ponto de destaque é que Keynes, na Teoria Geral, já havia realizado um tratamento dos mecanismos de transmissão de forma mais clara que muitos de seus seguidores e adversários. Respeitando esta controvérsia, o trabalho apresenta os mecanismos de transmissão da política monetária, baseado nas discussões realizadas durante a década de 1990. Abstract This work search to present a general view on the transmission mechanisms of the monetary policy. The beginning of the discussion obligatorily raisin for the controversy inside of the monetary theory on the paper of the coin in the economy and its capacity in affecting the real variables. The debate is synthesized happened among the currents of the monetary economy in the postwar period, between the keynesians of the neoclassical synthesis and the monetarists. The evolution of the ideas made to appear other thought currents, as the new-classic ones, the new-keynesians and the post-keynesians, but the prominence point is that Keynes, in the General Theory, had already accomplished a treatment of the transmission mechanisms in a clearer way than many of his followers and opponents. Respecting this controversy, the work presents the transmission mechanisms of the monetary policy, based on the discussions accomplished during the decade of 1990.


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