Vicarelli, Keynes, and the unstable nexus between investment, liquidity, and finance

Paolo Paesani

Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2018, vol. 41, issue 1, 16-35

Abstract: The goal of this article is to reconstruct Keynes’s vision of the unstable nexus between investment, liquidity and finance, as set out by the Italian economist Fausto Vicarelli (1936–1986). As argued in the article, one of Vicarelli’s main contributions consists of explaining the inherent instability of financially sophisticated capitalist economies in terms of the interaction (and double dissociation) between investment, saving, and stock-holding decisions, within a Keynesian framework characterized by the presence of fundamental uncertainty. While Vicarelli’s interpretation of Keynes is best understood in the context of the post-Keynesian literature, its relevance goes beyond that, as its sheds light on current issues related to the post-2008 financial crisis and its policy implications.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/01603477.2017.1373025

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