Against the Streams: Alain Parguez and the Theory of the Monetary Circuit

Riccardo Bellofiore

International Journal of Political Economy, 2023, vol. 52, issue 3-4, 259-269

Abstract: Alain Parguez, together with Bernard Schmitt and Augusto Graziani, is one of the founders of the modern theory of the monetary circuit. Parguez was making his first forays into monetary circuitism in the 1970s, in the years of my formation, when I came in contact with Augusto Graziani. Graziani’s and Parguez’s reflections were independent, but converging. In the article, I consider the parallels and divergences. I will recall some elements of Alain Parguez’s early version of the theory of the monetary circuit. Like Graziani, Parguez was in stark opposition not only to neoclassical theory and ‘bastard’ Keynesianism, but also with a significant part of the post-Keynesian strand. Parguez’s thinking was against the streams (plural): not only the mainstream, but also much of the so-called alternative approaches. In the late Parguez, an undeniable (but limited) connection with Modern Money Theory was emerging. It might seem that over time Parguez reached conclusions dissenting from Graziani, and his own earlier version of the circuit. I will try to give some arguments for my view that this is only partially true, and that some differences are overstated. I will also address some of Parguez’s views on economic policy.

Date: 2023
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