Keen on endogenous money and effective demand: a further comment

Severin Reissl

Review of Keynesian Economics, 2016, vol. 4, issue 2, 201-207

Abstract: This article comments on Steve Keen's rebuttal in which he replies to the critiques of his recent paper restating the argument that 'effective demand equals income plus the change in debt'. Building on a critique of Keen's original paper by the present author, it is argued that in using an alternative way to derive his statement, Keen modifies his hypothesis to the point of turning it into an outright tautology which, importantly, was not the case previously. While he thus indeed arrives at a relationship which necessarily holds, this contains no novel insight and does not justify his strong claims regarding any necessary relationship between changes in debt and effective demand. This paper also comments on Keen's peculiar views on the loanable funds model which appear to lie at the root of his hypothesis.

Keywords: effective demand; endogenous money; debt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E20 E40 E51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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