Arbeitspapier

Between Pigou and Keynes: Champernowne on employment and expectations

The paper investigates Champernowne's 1936 attempt to sort out the debate between Pigou (1933) and Keynes (1936) about employment determination. Champernowne agreed with Keynes that workers can only bargain for a money-wage, but argued that, to the extent that workers' (adaptive) price expectations lead to accelerating inflation or deflation, this will prompt central banks to change interest rates in order to bring the economy to its equilibrium ("basic") unemployment rate, with real wages equal to their anticipated values. However, that mechanism will not work if general uncertainty ("nervousness") prevails among businessmen.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CHOPE Working Paper ; No. 2017-21

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
History of Economic Thought: Macroeconomics
History of Economic Thought: Individuals: General
Thema
Champernowne
Pigou
Keynes
employment
expectations

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Boianovsky, Mauro
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE)
(wo)
Durham, NC
(wann)
2017

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Boianovsky, Mauro
  • Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE)

Entstanden

  • 2017

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