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Saving and Investment in the Twenty-First Century: The Great Divergence – some comments from a post-Keynesian perspective

This contribution discusses the book Saving and Investment in the Twenty-First Century: The Great Divergence by . It touches upon the underlying theoretical perspectives, von Weizsäcker's neo-Austrian view and Krämer's short-run Keynesian theory, and it proposes an alternative based on post-Keynesian distribution and growth theory. It also reviews the economic policy proposals of the book with respect to government deficits and debt, as well as international coordination of current-account balances, and finds broad agreement with modern post-Keynesian proposals, with some deviation when it comes to macroeconomic policy coordination among monetary, fiscal and wage/incomes policies. It concludes that these economic policy agreements should not be taken as a surprise. The requirements of stabilising government deficits and debt, in the face of an excess of private saving over private investment at full employment, and an excess of the private desire to hold net financial assets over the private-sector supply of financial liabilities, are based on solid national income and financial accounting. They are thus compatible with different macroeconomic theories regarding long-run equilibrium and adjustments towards it.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP) ; ISSN: 2052-7772 ; Volume: 18 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 293-302

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
General Aggregative Models: Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian
General Aggregative Models: Neoclassical
Austrian; Evolutionary; Institutional
Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook: General
Thema
saving
investment
interest rate
growth
stagnation
macroeconomic policy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hein, Eckhard
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Edward Elgar Publishing
(wo)
Cheltenham
(wann)
2021

DOI
doi:10.4337/ejeep.2021.03.04
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Hein, Eckhard
  • Edward Elgar Publishing

Entstanden

  • 2021

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