Exit Keynes the Friedmanite, Enter Minsky's Keynes

Robert J. Barbera

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Abstract: Perhaps the most indictable offense that mainstream economists committed, from 1988 through 2008, was to retrace Keynes's path of discovery from 1924 (A Tract on Monetary Reform) through 1936 (The General Theory). Wholesale deregulation of finance and categorical confidence in a reductionist role for central banks came into being as the conventional wisdom embraced the 1924 view that free markets and stable prices alone give us the best chance for economic stability. In the aftermath of the grand asset market boom-and-bust cycle of 2008-9, we are jettisoning Keynes circa 1924 for the Keynes of 1936. In effect, we study business cycles but seem incapable of extricating the economics profession from reciting its assigned lines as the play unfolds.

Date: 2013-09
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