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Secular stagnation or stagnation policy? Steindl after summers

The current debate on secular stagnation is suffering from some vagueness and several shortcomings. The same is true for the economic policy implications. Therefore, we provide an alternative view on stagnation tendencies based on Josef Steindl's contributions. In particular, Steindl (1952) can be viewed as a pioneering work in the area of stagnation in modern capitalism. We hold that this work is not prone to the problems detected in the current debate on secular stagnation: It does not rely on the dubious notion of an equilibrium real interest rate as the equilibrating force of saving and investment at full employment levels, in principle, with the adjustment process currently blocked by the unfeasibility of a very low or even negative equilibrium rate. It is based on the notion that modern capitalist economies are facing aggregate demand constraints, and that saving adjusts to investment through income growth and changes in capacity utilization in the long run. It allows for potential growth to become endogenous to actual demand-driven growth. And it seriously considers the role of institutions and power relationships for long-run growth-and for stagnation.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 846

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
History of Economic Thought: Macroeconomics
General Aggregative Models: Marxian; Sraffian; Kaleckian
General Aggregative Models: Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian
Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Thema
Secular Stagnation
Stagnation Policy
Distribution and Growth
Steindl

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hein, Eckhard
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
(wo)
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
(wann)
2015

Handle
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  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hein, Eckhard
  • Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

Entstanden

  • 2015

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