Rethinking monetary policy

Louis-Philippe Rochon

Chapter 11 in A Modern Guide to Rethinking Economics, 2017, pp 199-216 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Mainstream monetary theory rests on two arguments: inflation is determined by demand, and interest rates are used to return inflation to its target: central banks are the guardians of inflation. However, for post-Keynesians, inflation cannot be caused by demand, and there exists a poor and unreliable relationship between interest rates and aggregate demand. The whole theoretical edifice of the neoclassical approach collapses. Therefore, if monetary policy is based on a wrong interpretation of inflation and the link between aggregate demand and interest rates, the result can be and has been catastrophic. It leads to periods of crisis in aggregate demand.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781784717209.00021.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

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:elg:eechap:16503_11

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().