Friday, February 24, 2012

Dirk Bezemer - Growth and Crisis: The Two Faces of Credit


Dirk Bezemer - Growth and Crisis: The Two Faces of Credit
Perry Mehrling interviews Dirk Bezemer for INET (10 min)

Dirk Bezemer is MMT-friendly.

INET abstract:
At least since Joseph Schumpeter we know that credit is good for economic growth. At least since 2007 we know that too much credit foreshadows financial turmoil. Inspired by Keynes and Minsky, Dirk Bezemer pieces together a cross-country data set of credit and debt, investigating whether the two faces of credit are different for different forms of credit. And using agent-based modeling, he strives to capture the interaction between the financial and the real -- this is new economic thinking.

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