Post-Keynesian macroeconomics since the mid-1990s: Main developments

Post-Keynesian macroeconomics since the mid-1990s: Main developments
Eckhart Hein
Institute for International Political Economy Berlin, 2012
Grado: adelantado
Perspective: Economía poskeynesiana
Topic: Macroeconomía
Format: Working Paper
Enlace: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/148279

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Post-Keynesian macroeconomics since the mid-1990s: Main developments

Eckhard Hein  | 2016

 

Abstract: In this paper the main developments in post-Keynesian macroeconomics since the mid- 1990s will be reviewed. For this purpose the main differences between heterodox economics in general, including post-Keynesian economics, and orthodox economics will be reiterated and an overview over the strands of post-Keynesian economics, their commonalities and developments since the 1930s will be outlined. This will provide the grounds for touching upon three important areas of development and progress of post-Keynesian macroeconomics since the mid-1990s: first, the integration of distribution issues and distributional conflict into short- and long-run macroeconomics, both in theoretical and in empirical/applied works; second, the integrated analysis of money, finance and macroeconomics and its application to changing institutional and historical circumstances, like the process of financialisation; and third, the development of full-blown macroeconomic models, providing alternatives to the mainstream 'New Consensus Model' (NCM), and allowing to derive a full macroeconomic policy mix as a more convincing alternative to the one implied and proposed by the mainstream NCM, which has desperately failed in the face of the recent crises.

Key words: post-Keynesian macroeconomics, heterodox vs. orthodox economics, pluralism in economics, distribution, money, finance, macroeconomics, macroeconomic policies

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