Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Post Keynesian Perspective Thu 2010-07-22 16:08 EDT

Money is not a Neutral Veil

Lord Keynes

Neoclassical economics has the erroneous belief that money is neutral...Neoclassical analysis sees economic life in terms of a moneyless, ideal barter system. In this system, money exists but has been introduced merely to make trade easier...[however] John Maynard Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) argued that modern capitalist economies are pre-dominantly monetary systems. The starting point for any sensible economic theory must recognise that monetary factors are crucial to modern economic activity...

21st century; money; Neutral Veil; Post Keynesian Perspective; social democracy.

Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST

The Institutional Risk Analyst: New Hope for Financial Economics: Interview with Bill Janeway

A New Hope for Financial Economics: Interview with Bill Janeway; Institutional Risk Analytics; modern economics ``a kind of religious movement, a willed suspension of disbelief''

Bill Janeway; Financial Economics; Institutional Risk Analyst; interview; new hope.

Wed 2008-10-08 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Lessons From Modern Economic Crises (Not for the Fainthearted)

``episodes of credit crunches and housing busts are often long and deep''

Fainthearted; Lessons; Modern Economic Crises; naked capitalism.