Quantum macroeconomics: A tribute to Bernard Schmitt

Alvaro Cencini, Claude Gnos () and Sergio Rossi
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Alvaro Cencini: University of Lugano, Switzerland
Sergio Rossi: University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Cuadernos de Economía - Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance, 2016, vol. 39, issue 110, 65-75

Abstract: Bernard Schmitt, the founder of quantum macroeconomics, died on 26 March 2014. His legacy concerns the discovery of the logical laws of monetary macroeconomics and extends to the explanation of the origin and nature of economic and financial crises. Starting from a novel conception of bank money, he was able to show that economics is founded on true macroeconomic laws, which take the form of logical identities. This paper is a brief and necessarily incomplete introduction to the main themes of Schmitt's macroeconomic analysis. It ranges from the distinction between money and income that lies at the hearth of his theory of the circuit, to the investigation of inflation and unemployment as pathological manifestations of a macroeconomic disorder, to the groundbreaking discovery of the mechanism of duplication leading to the formation of sovereign debt.

Keywords: Financial crises; Inflation; Monetary economies of production; Money and banking; Quantum macroeconomics; Sovereign debt; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E42 F33 F34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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