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- From: david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Michael Wright)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Inflation
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:37:35 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- References: <1993Jan6.234601.23658@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1iomr0INN7t7@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1993Jan12.001732.9038@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan12.001732.9038@samba.oit.unc.edu> Robert.Vienneau@launchpad.unc.edu (Robert Vienneau) writes:
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- |Sorry, David, but from my limited knowledge about it, "New Keynesian
- |Economics" does not seem promising, judged from the standpoint of a
- |formalization of a historically accurate interpretation of the General
- |Theory. From what I understand, New Keynesians adopt rational
- |expectations assumptions with the change that not all markets need
- |clear. Instead "rationing" or some such assumption is introduced in some
- |markets. This is still a model of perfect "certainty," as defined by
- |Keynes.
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- [list deleted]
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- | Axel Leijonhufvud, "On Keynesian Economics and the Economics of
- | Keynes," Oxford Univeristy Press, 1968. (Bad history, I claim.
- | Interesting economics in its own right. )
- |
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- I liked his stuff, and his student Peter Howitt, who is probably a
- New-Keynesian. I liked his insistence that it is not wage rigidities
- that make Keynes special. Many should read that book but don't. I
- think his essential message was sound: that the absence of the
- auctioneer and the dual decision hypothesis is enough to make
- persistent inequlaity of plans.
- --
- "There is nothing in the marginal conditions that
- distinguish a mountain from a mole hill"
- Kenneth Boulding
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- All comments are mine---(David Wright)
- david@cats.ucsc.edu.
-