The theory of monetary disequilibrium, as espoused by Selgin (1988), White (1989), Horwitz (2000), and others, has been used to justify the issuance of fiduciary media under a system of fractional reserve “free” banking. The present paper examines this monetary disequilibrium theory and concludes that it contains numerous errors and logical fallacies. The foundational economic argument in favor...

Any economic agent constituting the monetary economy maintains the activity of monetary flow equilibration for fulfilling the condition of monetary flow continuity in the record, except at the central bank. At the same time, monetary flow equilibration at one economic agent constantly induces at other agents in the economy further flow disequilibrium to be eliminated subsequently. We propose th...

Abstract This paper analyses determinants of household savings in a model based on an extension the disequilibrium theory. These extensions follow from life-cycle, permanent-income and Ricardian-equivalence theories. Based panel data 20 countries period 2000–2020, fixed-effect least squares estimation procedures are used. The analysis provides evidence that negative interest rates lead to stati...

The global financial crisis that has struck in 2008 and the ensuing global recession of 2009–2012 have led to a renewed interest in macroeconomic adjustment and macroeconomic management. At a paradigmatic level, standard approaches—be they more of a neo-classical or Keynesian nature—appear to be inadequate to explain the complete patterns and persistence of fluctuations seen during the crisis. ...

In the framework of a Keynesian monetary macro model we study implications of a kinked Phillips-Curve and alternativemonetary policy rules. As alternative monetary policy rules we consider monetary growth targeting and interest rate targeting (the Taylor rule). Our monetary macro model exhibits: asset market clearing, disequilibrium in product and labor markets, sluggish price and quantity adju...