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Two Kinds of MELT and Their Determinations

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  • Jie Meng

    (Institute of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)

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In an article published in 2011 in this journal, Fred Moseley tries to discuss how the value of inconvertible credit money is determined in a Marxian theoretical tradition. In this critical comment, while sharing some crucial views with Moseley, the author makes a critique to some views in Moseley. The first critique concerns the so-called circular reasoning in the MELT as defined by the New Interpretation. The second concerns the relationship between Moseley’s MELT and capital accumulation. In his definition of MELT with inconvertible credit money, Moseley seems to overlook a theoretical tradition embodied especially in the work of Okishio-Foley-Kotz, which to different extents points out that the incentive and the real magnitude of capital accumulation or new investment play a crucial role in determining the value of inconvertible credit money.

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  • Jie Meng, 2015. "Two Kinds of MELT and Their Determinations," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 47(2), pages 309-316, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:47:y:2015:i:2:p:309-316
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    Keywords

    monetary expression of labor time; New Interpretation; value of money; capital accumulation;
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    JEL classification:

    • B51 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Socialist; Marxian; Sraffian
    • E11 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Marxian; Sraffian; Kaleckian

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