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Keynes on the Australian Wages System

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Keyne's General Theory briefly discusses the Australian wages system, as an example of a system in which an attempt was made to fix real wages by law. Keynes argues that such a system, strictly enforced, generates an unstable unemployment equilibrium or highly volatile money wages and prices. This paper clarifies Keynes's views on the Australian system, with a view to their wider relevance for the significance of real money and wage flexibility and inflexibility in Keynes's economics. The most striking finding is that money wage stickiness is a conclusion, not an assumption, of Keynes's theory of employment.

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  • Aspromourgos, Tony, 1994. "Keynes on the Australian Wages System," Working Papers 205, University of Sydney, School of Economics.
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