The paper studies endogenous employment and distribution dynamics in a Post-Keynesian growth model of the Kalecki–Steindl tradition. Abstract: A particularly influential group among heterodox economists argues that a ‘competitive’ real exchange rate by itself triggers economic growth. New Developmentalism, a sub-group within this broader view, makes a valuable contribution to the discussion by assigning two different roles to the ‘competitive’ or ‘equilibrium’ exchange rate: first, it acts as a ‘light switch’ by allowing tradable sectors that employ ‘state of the art’ technology to earn the normal profit rate of the economy by selling their goods in global markets. And, second, to ensure that domestic firms have ‘access to foreign demand’, growth is accelerated through several mechanisms. This paper exclusively focuses on the first role, which has received much less attention in the literature. To do so, the authors present a formal framework inspired by the classical approach to prices and distribution that (a) captures the idea of the exchange rate as a ‘light-switch’ and (b) allows the examination of the scopes and limits of the concept of ‘Dutch disease’, the main structural feature that, according to New Developmentalism, may cause the systematic overvaluation of the exchange rate

Ariel Dvoskin and Germán David Feldman

Review of Keynesian Economics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 3, 382-405

Keywords: competitive real exchange rate; Dutch disease; New Developmentalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E11 E5 F31 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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