Post-Keynesian Theory and a Policy for Managing Financial Market Instability and its Relevance to the Great Recession

Paul DAVİDSON

Makale detayları

Post-Keynesian Theory and a Policy for Managing Financial Market Instability and its Relevance to the Great Recession

Yazarlar:

Paul DAVİDSON

Yayıncı:

Türkiye Ekonomi Kurumu Vakfı

Ana Başlıklar:

Ekonomi ve Maliye

Dergi:

Ekonomi-tek 2012 Vol.1 Issue 3, pp.1-24

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

8/2012

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000406297

eISSN:

2791-7991

pISSN:

2146-6173

Özet:

 

For more than three decades, orthodox economists and policymakers, motivated by some variant of classical economic theory, have insisted that (1) government regulation of markets and large government spending policies are the cause of all our economic problems and (2) ending big government and freeing especially financial markets from government regulatory controls is the solution to those problems. In response, governments around the world have been freeing up financial markets and trying to reduce their involvement in economic matters. Yet, in 2007-8, the global economy experienced an alarming financial market meltdown that led to the Great Recession in which we are still enmeshed. To those who profess the belief that free markets produce socially optimum solutions, this paper explains why the facts do not support this conclusion. Keynes’s liquidity theory and the Post-Keynesian theory that developed from Keynes’s analysis can explain (a) why free financial markets cannot be efficient and (b) how to develop policies and institutions to reduce the possibility of financial market instability.

 

For more than three decades, orthodox economists and policymakers, motivated by some variant of classical economic theory, have insisted that (1) government regulation of markets and large government spending policies are the cause of all our economic problems and (2) ending big government and freeing especially financial markets from government regulatory controls is the solution to those problems. In response, governments around the world have been freeing up financial markets and trying to reduce their involvement in economic matters. Yet, in 2007-8, the global economy experienced an alarming financial market meltdown that led to the Great Recession in which we are still enmeshed. To those who profess the belief that free markets produce socially optimum solutions, this paper explains why the facts do not support this conclusion. Keynes’s liquidity theory and the Post-Keynesian theory that developed from Keynes’s analysis can explain (a) why free financial markets cannot be efficient and (b) how to develop policies and institutions to reduce the possibility of financial market instability.

Makale detayları

Post-Keynesian Theory and a Policy for Managing Financial Market Instability and its Relevance to the Great Recession

Yazarlar: Paul DAVİDSON

Yayıncı: Türkiye Ekonomi Kurumu Vakfı

Ana Başlıklar: Ekonomi ve Maliye

Dergi: Ekonomi-tek 2012 Vol.1 Issue 3, pp.1-24

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 8/2012

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000406297

eISSN: 2791-7991

pISSN: 2146-6173

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Paul DAVİDSON

Yayıncı:

Türkiye Ekonomi Kurumu Vakfı

Ana Başlıklar:

Ekonomi ve Maliye

Dergi:

Ekonomi-tek 2012 Vol.1 Issue 3, pp.1-24

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

8/2012

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000406297

eISSN:

2791-7991

pISSN:

2146-6173