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Monetary Economics

An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Wynne Godley

    1. King’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

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  2. Marc Lavoie

    1. Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, Canada

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 1-22

  3. Balance Sheets, Transaction Matrices and the Monetary Circuit

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 23-56

  4. The Simplest Model with Government Money

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 57-98

  5. Government Money with Portfolio Choice

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 99-130

  6. Long-term Bonds, Capital Gains and Liquidity Preference

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 131-169

  7. Introducing the Open Economy

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 170-216

  8. A Simple Model with Private Bank Money

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 217-249

  9. Time, Inventories, Profits and Pricing

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 250-283

  10. A Model with Private Bank Money, Inventories and Inflation

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 284-313

  11. A Model with both Inside and Outside Money

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 314-377

  12. A Growth Model Prototype

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 378-444

  13. A More Advanced Open Economy Model

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 445-492

  14. General Conclusion

    • Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie
    Pages 493-500

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 501-530
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About this book

This book challenges the mainstream paradigm, based on the inter-temporal optimisation of welfare by individual agents. It introduces a methodology for studying how institutions create flows of income, expenditure and production together with stocks of assets and liabilities, thereby determining how whole economies evolve through time.

Reviews

'The framework that Godley and Lavoie develop, with a consistent numerical and simulational handle on the various models, is a return to a majestic Wicksellian tradition A whole generation of graduate students have been brought up on policy nihilism, bordering on paralysis in the face of policy dilemmas. A new generation, armed with the tools, concepts and models developed by Godley and Lavoie, can now return to the grand traditions of macroeconomics as an experimental science, focusing on policy.' - K. Vela Velupillai, Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge, UK, and Professor of Economics, University of Trento, Italy

'Wynne Godley has been the moving force behind keeping quantitative non-mainstream macroeconomics alive and flourishing for the last several decades...His work is inspiring, and will guide policy-oriented macroeconomic modellers for decades to come.' - Lance Taylor, Cambridge Journal of Economics

'...[This] clearly deserves to become a standard referencefor everybody interested in SFC modelling in particular and modern macroeconomics in general. There are already first signs that other economists are indeed inspired by this way of thinking about the economy...' - Till van Treeck, Intervention, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies

Authors and Affiliations

  • King’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

    Wynne Godley

  • Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, Canada

    Marc Lavoie

About the authors

WYNNE GODLEY was Director of the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK, from 1970 to 1987, and a Professor of Applied Economics from 1980 to 1993. Subsequently, he was a Distinguished Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York, USA, and then a Visiting Research Associate at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance.
 
MARC LAVOIE is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has written over 175 journal articles and book chapters, as well as authoring Foundations of Post-Keynesian Economic Analysis and Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Monetary Economics

  • Book Subtitle: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth

  • Authors: Wynne Godley, Marc Lavoie

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08599-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-30184-9Published: 27 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-08599-3Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XLVI, 530

  • Topics: European History, Banking

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