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An Alternative Monetary Model of Inflation and Growth

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This paper presents a simple model of a monetary economy in which production takes time and is financed by loans from financial intermediaries such as banks. The model is an example of a pure credit economy, but does not contain the contentious Wicksellian construct of a natural rate of interest. Rather, the main determining factor of economic outcomes is the struggle over income distribution between finance (Keynes's rentiers), industry, and labour. The model yields a number of macroeconomic results, some of which are sharply at variance with those obtained in more orthodox or mainstream, models. In particular, a structural long-term Phillips-curve type relationship emerges in inflation-growth space, for some demand-side and monetary policy changes. In addition, the model is also able to identify other circumstances in which the opposite cases of either stagflation or non-inflationary growth can occur.

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  • John Smithin, 1997. "An Alternative Monetary Model of Inflation and Growth," Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(4), pages 395-409.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revpoe:v:9:y:1997:i:4:p:395-409
    DOI: 10.1080/09538259700000039
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    1. John Smithin, 1996. "Macroeconomic Policy and the Future of Capitalism," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 764.
    2. David Laidler, 1993. "Was Wicksell a Quantity Theorist?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Haim Barkai & Stanley Fischer & Nissan Liviatan (ed.), Monetary Theory and Thought, chapter 8, pages 146-181, Palgrave Macmillan.
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