Some Fundamentals in the Theory of Velocity

Howard S. Ellis

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1938, vol. 52, issue 3, 431-472

Abstract: Introduction: contra-quantity-theory causation with Keynes, 431. — I. Working balances and the "overlapping" of payments: description, importance, illustrative cases, effects on circuit velocity or monetary requirements, 433. — II. Working balances and differentiation: behavior of circuit and transactions velocity, 446. — III. Real balances in the active circulation: relations of circuit and transactions velocity with real balances, 450. — IV. Idle balances or hoards: the Keynes-Robertson debate on losses and hoarding, the basic character of hoards, 457. — V. Division of money stock into working and idle balances, its connection with causation, Harrod's representation of Keynes, actual causation with Keynes, conclusion, 461.

Date: 1938
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1884085 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:52:y:1938:i:3:p:431-472.

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://academic.oup.com/journals

Access Statistics for this article

The Quarterly Journal of Economics is currently edited by Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer and Stefanie Stantcheva

More articles in The Quarterly Journal of Economics from President and Fellows of Harvard College
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().