Weaving Cloth from Graziani’s Thread: Endogenous Money in a Simple (but Complete) Keynesian Model

Wynne Godley

Chapter 4 in The Stock-Flow Consistent Approach, 2012, pp 81-89 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of Graziani’s main themes runs as follows. In order to finance production, the entrepreneur must obtain the funds necessary to pay his workforce in advance of sales taking place. Starting from scratch, he must borrow from banks, at the beginning of each production cycle, the sum which is needed in order to pay wages, creating a debt for the entrepreneur and, thereby, an equivalent amount of credit money, which sits initially in the hands of the labour force. Production now takes place and the produced good is sold at a price which enables the debt to be repaid inclusive of interest, while hopefully generating a surplus — that is, a profit — for the entrepreneur. When the debt is repaid, the money originally created is extinguished. An entire monetary circuit is now complete.

Keywords: Real Wage; Real Income; Nominal Wage; Wage Bill; Historic Cost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230353848_5

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