Modigliani and Keynes

Robert Solow

Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, 2005, vol. 58, issue 233-234, 11-19

Abstract: The first article published by Franco Modigliani has become one of the basic texts of the modern Keynesian economics. It formalized the model (or at least one model) implicit in the General Theory. Modigliani argued that the characteristics Keynesian conclusions are based primarily on the (realistic) rigidity of nominal wages. In particular, it showed that if wages and prices were flexible, the theory of liquidity preference of money could not generate persistent involuntary unemployment, but if wages were rigid, the theory of the amount of money could do it. Sixty years later Modigliani returned to expose the "Keynesian gospel" and proposed essentially the same interpretation. This article reconsiders and discusses this approach to macroeconomics, with some reference to its implications for economic policy.

Keywords: Franco Modigliani; Keynesian gospel; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B22 E12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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