KEYNES’ INTERVENTIONIST-REFORMIST ECONOMIC POLICIES

Economic Integration , Wage Policies and Social Policies

This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an exogenous differential in wage and social policies on the location of industry. Two model scenarios are considered. In the traditional one with physical capital, such a differential induces a relocation effect which increases with the level of trade integration. The ‘new economic...

Economic Trends and Policies

Once again it is a pleasure to have this opportunity to speak to members of the ABE. I believe – I hope correctly – that business economists share our interest in seeking out practical policy responses to our problems. Today, I would like to offer some comments on current economic trends and their implications for policy. They will have a familiar ring to many of you. Looking back for a moment,...

9 Keynes and money

Introduction John Maynard Keynes was probably the most important and famous economist of the twentieth century. Keynes was primarily a specialist in monetary theory. The words money, monetary, currency appear in the title of all Keynes’s major books on economic theory. His conceptualization of money, however, differs significantly from that of classical economic theory, while the latter has dom...

The New Interventionist Economics

The Great Recession seems to be creating a New Interventionist Economics characterized by bubbles, radical uncertainty, animal spirits, complexity dynamics, and extra-market control. When placed in that order, these characteristic create the acronym BRACE. I review some evidence and literature pointing to BRACE economics and briefly suggest some avenues to challenge the new interventionists. JE...

Center for Social & Economic Research Economic Convergence and Economic Policies