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Keynes's Clearing Union Is Alive and Well and Living in Your Mobile Phone

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While governments may consider implementation of John Maynard Keynes's original clearing union proposal for the international financial architecture too difficult or radical, Senior Scholar Jan Kregel notes that the private sector has already produced a virtual equivalent of an international global monetary system. Currently, this system is employed as an extension of the international mobile telephone services provided by a private company, rather than a financial institution. The clearing system he describes provides an example of a possible solution that retains national currencies without requiring the substitution of the dollar with another national currency or basket of national currencies.

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  • Jan Kregel, 2021. "Keynes's Clearing Union Is Alive and Well and Living in Your Mobile Phone," Economics Policy Note Archive 21-1, Levy Economics Institute.
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