Michael Stephens — Working Paper Roundup 5/15/2015

 Of special note:

Mariana Mazzucato and L. Randall Wray

Financing the Capital Development of the Economy: A Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky Synthesis 

“Over [the postwar] period, the financial system grew rapidly relative to the nonfinancial sector … To a large degree, this was because finance, instead of financing the capital development of the economy, was financing itself. At the same time, the capital development of the economy suffered perceptibly. If we apply a broad definition—to include technological advances, rising labor productivity, public and private infrastructure, innovations, and the advance of human knowledge—the rate of growth of capacity has slowed. …

The key goal of this paper is to reconsider and discuss the role of finance … that is, how to restructure it to serve the ‘real’ economy, rather than itself, in order to produce both innovation-led growth and full employment. This requires bringing together the thinking of Keynes, Minsky, and Schumpeter, as well as understanding the role of the public sector as doing much more than fixing static market failures.”

Multiplier Effect
Working Paper Roundup 5/15/2015
Michael Stephens